Architectural Competition.

Progress, Volume XV, Issue 9, 1 May 1920, Page 787

Architectural Competition.

A competition has been advertised by the Auckland University College Council, toy which architects are invited to submit preliminary sketch designs in' competition for the erection of an Arts Building and Accessories, which it proposes to erect on the site known as the Metropolitan Ground, facing Princes street, Auckland From the preliminary sketch designs six (6) will be selected, the authors of which will be invited to submit final designs, and on their so doing, in accord-, ance with the prescribed conditions, a final selection will be made of a design to be placed first, and each of the five unsuccessful architects will receive an honorarium of a hundred pounds (£100). The author of the first design will receive as a premium the sum of five hundred pounds (£500). 'A'.

Designs for the preliminary competition must be delivered, addressed to the Registrar, Auckland University College, Symonds street, Auckland, by the 14th August, 1920, The award for the preliminary competition will be made within 21 days of the'above date. The date for sending in the designs in the final competition will be determined hereafter, but at least 12 weeks will be allowed, and the final award will be made within 21 days of the date so determined, >’• ■ _ ; - •

Copies of conditions and particulars may, be obtained on;. application to ; the. Registrars, of the University . Colleges at Auckland, Wellington, and Christchurch, of Otago University, Dunedin, and of the Universities of Sydney, Melbourne, Brisbane, and Adelaide. . '■'. ,\ '"■_;, : ., -.:.'. Those ■ applying for conditions must ■ deposit the sum of two guineas (£2 2s), which will be returned to those competing when a selection is made. .No mention is made as to how the designs will be assessed, or by whom, although a Wellington paper mentions the name of Prof. Wilkinson of Sydney University as one of the judges. " - - :