Our 77th Competition.

Progress, Volume XVI, Issue 8, 1 April 1921, Page 189

Our 77th Competition.

We offer a prize of £i is. for the design adjudged the best for AX ART GALLERY required for a country town to which has been bequeathed a small number of pictures and a few pieces of sculpture collected in Italy by the testator, at one time resident in the town. A sum of money has also been left for the erection of the gallery, which under the terms of the will is to be designed in the Italian style. The amount at the disposal of the trustees will permit the building to be erected of stone and to be appropriately finished throughout. A brief inscription indicating that the gallery is the gift of John Markham is to be introduced into the design. Accommodation required: Two galleries, each approximately 1,000 square feet; hall, approximately 300 square feet; vestibule and loggia, sizes at discretion of competitor. Drawings to be on Whatman paper, imperial size, in Indian ink only, and to comprise plan, section, elevation. Optional: Half-inch detail of exterior or interior feature. Mr. C. Reginald Ford, of Wanganui, has kindly set this subject. Designs must be sent in finished as above under a nom-de-plume, addressed to the Editor ‘‘N.Z. Building Progress,” 22 Wingfield Street, Wellington, and clearlymarked “Seventy-seventh” Competition on outside, with a covering letter giving competitor’s name, and address of employer. Designs must be sent in by July 27th, 1921.