Lightning Proof Building.

Progress, Volume II, Issue 8, 1 June 1907, Page 302

Lightning Proof Building.

Yet another advantage of ferro-concrete construction ! This time it is the safety from lightning which is gained by buildings erected wholly on this system A German scientific paper has been dwelling on the fact, and now the Scientific American has been calling attention to it. The ferro-concrete building is its own lightning conductor.

" Wiltshire Buildings," at the corner of High and Tuam streets, Chnstchurch, have lately been completed for' Mrs E. White, and we reproduce a photograph of same in this issue. The materials used are brick and Oamaru stone, whilst the shop piers are of bluestone. On each first floor are two bay windows of chaste design with moulded and en-

riched trusses. Over the first floor windows a band of diaper work has been introduced with good effect, the matenals a used being stone and flint work in alternate squares. The corner (an acute angle) 1^ surmounted by a battlemented turret m rockfaced stone with carved enrichment over windows The building is roofed with Marseilles tiles. The accommodation comprises five shops with office at rear of each, the corner shop having basement floor in addition The upper floors are subdivided into offices^and showrooms, access to same being gained by electric lift as well as stans Architects, Clarkson &Ballantyne; contractors, Rennie & Pearce.