Our 76th Competition.

Progress, Volume XVI, Issue 8, 1 April 1921, Page 188

Our 76th Competition.

We offer a prize of £i is. for the design adjudged the best for a MONUMENTAL ENTRANCE TO A PUBLIC PARK. Site. —A public park has a frontage of 250 feet on the principal street of a large town. Opposite the park two smaller streets 70 feet wide intersect diagonally with the principal street, which is 100 feet wide. The other boundaries of the park are enclosed by private property. The buildings on each side of park frontage are threestorey office buildings or club buildings of the Georgian period. There is a carriage drive in the park between an avenue of trees leading through the centre of the park frontage, with an Art Gallery at the end of the avenue. Intention -It is intended to form a monumental entrance to the park as a memorial, to be erected in stone. The design is to show dignity and restraint, purity of style, and harmony with surroundings, and the appearance from all points of view must be considered. Drawings Required. —l. Sketches on tracing paper to be forwarded to include: Plan of general arrangement of streets and entrance, 32 feet to 1 inch; sketch elevation, 16 feet to 1 inch. (N. 8.- This'sketch is demanded so that students’ work may be judged on the working out of their original idea. Students should keep one copy of their sketch and send the other for the remarks of* the assessor, who will retain the copies and forward his remarks on each design, which may then be completed and forwarded for final award. It is essential that students in this competition should not depart from the general idea indicated in their sketches, and if they depart materi-

ally will be set aside although the design may be most meritorious. 2. finished drawings: Block plan to small scale; plan of entrance, 16 feet to 1 inch; elevation, 8 feet to 1 inch; drawings to be fully rendered in colour, pen and ink, or monochrome. Mr. F. E. Greenish, A.R.1.8.A., of Wellington, has kindly set this subject. Sketches must be sent in finished as above under a nom-de-plurae, addressed to the Editor ‘‘N.Z. Building Progress,” 22 Wingfield Street, Wellington, and clearlymarked ‘‘Seventy-sixth Competition (Sketch)” on outside, with a covering letter giving competitor's name, and address of employer. Sketches must be sent in by May 10th, 1921.