Building Record

Sun (Auckland), Volume II, Issue 359, 21 May 1928, Page 14

Building Record

Modern Bungalow Erected in 36 Hours POSTER ART DISPLAY Attempting to put up a new world’s building record, workers started a modern brick dwelling at 10.30 last evening. It is to be completely equipped and furnished by to-morrow morning. This model home is inside the main Town Hall, and it will be one of the big features of the Auckland Advertising Club’s exhibition, to be opened to-morrow afternoon. Carpenters started on the job last night, and will carry on until this afternoon. The bricklayers joined in this morning, and already the house has taken on a recognisable shape. It is an attractive-looking place, with a large bungalow window and French doors in the front. The actual construction should be complete this evening, and the furnishers will then begin the interior decoration. The bedroom is to be a reproduction of Queen Anne style. All the pieces will be of solid mahogany. The dining room will -* lc7 o be a demonstration of chaste beauty in Queen Anne period, but the drawing room is to have its basis on “modern” decorative principles.. The main Town Hall, the concert chamber, and the supper room are overrun by an army of constructors today, and strange shapes are rising from the floors. SPLENDID PICTURES Around the walls of the Town Hall are hung the beginning of one of the finest collections of posters ever shown south of the Line. Clausen, Wilkinson, Herrick, and many other famous British artists are represented in the display. Poster art has been described by critics as the “most living branch” of art, and this exhibition shows the flowering of it. From the impressive but rather gloomy pictures of British industries to the alluring masses of colours suggesting Eastern lands, all the pictures are worth looking at more than once.