EIGHT STOREY HIGH

Taranaki Central Press, Volume IV, Issue 394, 30 March 1937, Page 6

EIGHT STOREY HIGH

Government Building in Auckland. Press Association—Copyright. Wellington, March 30. Modernistic in style and eight storeys high, the proposed Government Building in Auckland will make its site at Jean Batten Place, the new connecting link between Shortland Street and Fort Street, a distinctive centre from an architectural point of view. This was made’cleav in an interview with the Minister of Public Works, Hon. R. Semple, who gave details of the project Welded steel framing encased in concrete will be utilised and there will be facings of stone. “This,” commented Mr. Semple, “will give a pleasing elevation. The window-frames are to be of bronze, and the building generally is being designed to provide the maximum of light for the interior.”

There will be two entrances in both Shortland and Fort Streets, one each for the ground floor and the others for the upper floors, reached by lifts. In the centre of the ground floof # facing the new 40ftt roadway which is to be called Jean Batten Place, will be a post office, in a handy position from either Shortland Street or Fort Street. It is intended to house the Pensions Department on the ground floor on the corner of Jean Batten Place and Fort Street.