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self
this why
shop is dressed up like a municipal
library, why that public- house apes
"an
And so it went on, buckwards and forwards, copying all the time with only a difference of models.
Conics's fats at Lawn Road, Hamps- tend, do describe from their outward appearance Be new purpose of the building.
But to-day there
Or take the problem of the office ia something of an architect himself. Light for hin different being offered and the dan- drawing board is what he needs ger is that we have become so necus- tomed to seeing one building put up have the sense of Mestra. Mitchell & above all. But how many architects reminds us of another somewhere Bridgwater in their Bruton Place else or that has famillar features. that omces to run their windows in a con- we can safely ticket as "Tudor." Unuous band the whole width of their "Wren," "Cothic," or whatnot that
building? we shall overlook or dismiss this new movement.
architect has often name. But, when Sir Christopher to study the wants of the animals
old-world not something to be learnt like a
The modern concrete and glass And was it courage or just com- cottage and why the outside rule of thumb (as is copyists think), building may look un-English its mon sense that led Messrs. Lubetkin an un-English and Teston in their new Zoa buildings of this cafe looks like the nor is it something to be mixed with
the mortar to Jazz it up. inside of a Turkish bath.
It is in fact the logical successor Nearly all the buildings you see are to the architecture of the eighteenth century that was burled alive by the Imitations of something else. All Victorians beneath a pile of imitation English towns, not only London, have antiques. become pitiful hatch-poteltes of cribs and copies.
And if our builders are not copying some historical precedent they are doing worse; they are imitating with out understanding the work of the Jew
architects of to-day who are
Wren started building, his housea which they were to house and to in- could best looked 'un-English against a Tudor, quire what materials
masters had satisfy these wants2 background and his
Was it revolutionary or eccentris to Italian names.
To-day the principles of building build for the penguins those Inter- and the architect's approach are the twining, stoping ferro-concrete walks samo as those of the Georgian period. that elegantly span the pool? The In the eighteenth century the
penguins do not think so. They use English vernacular was wholly ad- To-day again the architect is ask those ramps without hesitation, as mirable. It was the result of a ing himself the questions: What is common-sense development, and not this building for? What materials any visitor to the Zoo knows. a blind imitation, of classical (and have I to build it with? therefore un-English furnis,
tecture.
And the gorillas aro happy in their alry sunny house that can be shielded The purpose of modern buildings, from the wind by a revolving screen. are new and the materials have Yet that revolving screen has no changed, so we must not expect the counter-part in any "style" of archi- design to look familiar.
And now the elephants also nɛg to concrete makes possible shapes and be rehoused. One can only hope that spuns that lave no place in any style. they, too, will be treated with the To dress these new materials in same consideration and honesty as period arelecture is like putting a the penguins and gorillas, modern gir back into hobbleskiris.
The use of steel girders and ferro- London has its examples of this
The wedding between, Miss Oigaereating something that is different.
Maria de Castro Basto and Mr. Fernando Jose dog Remedios will take place at 10 nm. on Saturday, November 27, at St. Teresa's Church, Kowloon Tong No invitations will be issued but relatives and friends will be welcome of the Church and afterwards at the reception to be held at 20, Granville Road, Kowloon.
new architecture; two adjacent houses in Church Street, Chelsen, another in Hampstead, some ants in Highgale and Ladbroke Grove, and one or two others,
DEATH
KOTWALL.--At the St. Paul's Hos- pital, Hongkong, on November 19th, 1837, Anna Kotwall, wife
By the right use of materials and a proper understanding of the pur- pose of a bullding our eighteenth- century or Georgian architecture reflected perfectly the English life and behaviour of that time.
Look at Bedford Row, Bloomsbury, and then at what remains of Port
and Pinec, to take examples from both ends of the Georgiin period. In both cases the forms are the same but you can see at a glance the progress and refluement that took place over the space of a hundred And in the country. individual years. The windows have become houses are being built whose fat larger and more elegant, the bars roofs and large windows are at once
more delicate,' the whole broader and denounced by local authorities.
more urbane.
But how many such buildings re- flected anything of the activity of
For honesty is the keynote of this Another 50 yearnd all that was this new form of business. Some modern uremiccture, as it was of the lost. Architecture became a game look like museums, others like over brothers.
architecture of Wren or the Adamı
"
For there is still a mass prejudice of the late Mr. E. D. Kotwall.against this modern architecture and Funeral will pass the Monument
papers
And we must not expect a modern department store built to-day to look like anything built in previous cen- uries, when there were no depart-
ment stores.
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And one hopes also that the new college at Oxford that Lord Nuheld has endowed will not be built as a slavish copy of the existing colleges. The new college should reflect all the efficiency, contemporary spirit and honesty of desigo that is shown in Lord Numleld's motor-cars.
of leap-frog from one style to an- grown farm-houses. Only one in other, and building was treated in London-Messrs. Peter Jones, built
Good architecture is an honeal at- at 5 p.m. to-day. (Shanghai, Kreat nonsense is talked about it.
much the some sort of way as is to the designs of Mr. William Crab- tempt to solve a problem; the most Bombay and Straits
Modern architecture is neither a different at all costs and your build-
present-day display advertising. Be tree looks a what it is. please ropy).
honest is the simplest, and the sim- new style nor an eccentricity. It la ing will catch somebody's eye.
How many of the new blocks of difficulties by using unsuitable forms plest is that which does not create flats in London truly represent this and unsuitable materials. The result, of course, was a street new form of living? Most resemble
The
Thongkong Telegraph.
FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 19, 1937.
POINTING THE ROAD IN SOCIAL SERVICE
be that it will grow from this like the Strand with no style, no uni- private houses blown up with a If we can remember that, we shnil present little beginning to a formity, no direction, with plenty of bleycle pump. But 11 few. like be getting back to the ne position great and far-reaching improve-catch the eye, but nothing to hold Messrs. Lubetkin and Tecton's "High that English architecture once com- ment, backed by all sections of altention.
point" at Highgate,
or Mr. Wells monded in the civilised world.
Do They Want Hitler?
the people, Chinese as well as European. For its aim must round that it will remove the appeal to all. If only on the prevailing danger of disease in the crowded coolie quarters, the Yesterday the Hongkong nightmare of epidemics which | Telegraph was able to disclose would affect every man, woman that a private group of social Peak levels to the meanest hovel and child, from the uppermost workers had undertaken certain in Hollywood Road, it is good. H TITLER is expected shortly to issue-an-important declaration- experiments", with
is respect to And whatever
good is Hongkong's housing problem as
deserving of support and en-it is believed, formal steps to claim on his colonial policy. He will take,
colonies still belonged to her.
оп be-
-BY-
PATRICK BALFOUR
(Author of "Lords of the
Equator'")
responsibility, experience and in- telligence
Their inward feelings are proble- matical Under German rule their firms would undoubtedly be sub- jected to a more righ control. But they
Government are outwardly loyal to the Nazi view and put the - economic case for a return of the mandate with reason and moderation.
Their principal point is that, by paying in German currency for the raw materials which she buys from her ex-colonies, Germany could release suficient. foreign currency to pay for the raw materials which she has to buy elsewhere. Moreover die could afford to buy more raw materiala from those colonies ther she buys at present.
It affects the poorer population., couragement.
the reiurn of those ex-German The social workers responsi-colonies which Great Britain, now For the merit of the experiment ble for this experiment are am-administers under mandate nothing more need be said than bitious. They would not only half of the League of Nations. that it is timely, or rather, over-raise the standard of living, but
This, in effect, would imply that due. No matter if it appears the moral life of the people with the colonial clauses of the Treaty of whom they are working, Versailles were, in Germany's view, to be unsound financially at the Education, supervision and per-null and vold, and that her previous outset, it is a stride in the right|sonal interest are the means;
and fluctuating prices. His capital, direction. From it the investi- they propose to adopt for this One group would be more closely insufficient in the Arst place, hins gators will learn much; enough, characterise their venture
purpose. They themselves affected than anyone else by such auften been dissipated in improvident
change-the Germans who live in agricultural experiment. what used to be the German colonies. I perhaps, to be in a position to unique and bold in conception. What do they think about it?
The poor German is generally 13 loyal, if not a violent Nazi, ndvige the Government's ex-So it is. Moreover, they are
financing it themselves
Take Tanganyika, for example. perts who may be called upon voluntary subscription.
He has little hope of seeing his Before the war 50 per cent, of But it In Tanganyika to-day there are Fatherland again. He has nothing to Tanganyika's exports went to Ger- -
To-day she takes only 10 to consider some such scheme at is their hope that the "settle-close on three thousand Germans.
lose, and hopes that he has every many. thing to gain, by a return of the per cent. distant date. Behind the ments" which they establish f They are a third of the total territory to German rule.
On the other hand, under present private experiment is a strong will require no great outlay on European population and, excluding:
Politics provide him with his conditions lie German firms in the part of the backers. No- the members of the administration feeling of dissatisfaction and one will relish their tasks of and their familles, considerably out-principal source of hope. ile neuri- Tanganyika suffer from no lack of
number the British.
shes on atmosphere of Nozi intrigue, foreign currency. The greater part injustice resulting from that education and uplift, but, on the
He boasts openty of what he will do of their trade is conducted on #
gets All these Germans are engaged. when Germany
Tanganyika sterling basis, much of their sisal system known as "principal other hand, no-one will be directly or indireelly, in the produc- back.
sold to England and Amerlea for tenantry," considered by many These experimenters are real agricultural, for Germany and other
foreign currency. dull as to despise or belittle it: tion of raw materials, predominantly
The proportion He is the life and soul of the local which goes to Germany is largely to be iniquitous because of the public servants.
eagerly to Nazi Party meetings. His nuisance paid for in German currency as
is, in the form of German imports and German machinery.
no
by
countries. All listen
almost inevitable abuses which One of the best things that each new pronouncement on Ger- value is not inconsiderable.
But all do many's colonial claims.
are
be built by tho
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grow out of it. Granted that it could result from this scheme not react to them in the same tone. In the Chinese themselves who would be the proof that tene-
Above the peasants, but not neces- Secondly, the Germans maintain responsiblo, for the most monts can
carlly in authority over them, are the that under British mandate the The Germania in Tanganyika tend] German "barons." They are the agricultural wealth of Tanganyika is part, for the sub-letting of floor Government at reasonable coat to fall into three classca.
owners of coffee plantations or share- not developed to full capacity. space to tenants at ridiculous¦ in keeping with the limited re-
holders in sisal plantations large
Native cultivation of coffee and prices, for the over-crowding turns. There should be no aim First there are the poor Germans enough to bring in an adequate, if ground-nuts, European cultivation of and unsanitary conditions of at profit, but only an endeavour Most of them are young men who not a comfortable income.
coffee and sisal could be considerably many of the Colony's têne-to avoid large loss,
hive come out to the country within Landlords the past ten years. There are Most of the barons profess an out- Increased. ments: granted that the custom might suffer to the extent of salaried employees and ex-employees word adherence to the Nazi regime.
Timber, which at present is handly is old-established and that, in all losing a proportion of their of German firms, working as artisans Often their loyalty is sincere. But explolied at all, could be planted in probability, a good proportion of tenants. But their loss would or mechanics, clerks or enchiers, en-a large proportion of them view a
gineers or assistant managers on return to German rule with mis large quantities, those who are encompassed in be the gain of the Colony as a plantations.
giving.
Undoubtedly, if Hitler got back it have never known better whole. Moreover, there is no living conditions and probably reason to suppose that they their swn
Others are "peasant" settlers, with Some have even moved across the Tanganyika, he would make a ble amall farms or coffee frontier inte Kenya to remain secure-national effort to develop it. Large THE HONGKONG & SHANGHAI HOTELS, LTD. meat for reform is nevertheless sufficient rates to ensure a pro-
have known worse, the move-[could not still let their space at plantations.
ly under the British flag.
sums would be spent to reclaim jungle, to plant, to establish a more- The "barons" fear, under Unable to obtain a living at home,
Nazi eficient system of communication, admirable, necessary And aft. It is not suggested that the
of gratification that Government should go into the men were tempted out to Africa rule, on influx of peasant settlers, Germans would be shipped out in by the prospect of n living wage. subsidised in German currency, who thousands to develop the new Nuz! there
are disinterested Euro-tenement business with the idea what they receive is barely a living will compele with them and spoil colony with a totalitarian energy and. peans here who have the wel-of competing or rate-cutting, wage. The salaried employee carns their already limited market.
unity of purpose. fare of the less important mem-though Д decline in rentals often less than £19 and seldom more
But the wealth of a At present they export the greater than £15 per month, in a country
country, de- bers of the community at heart. would probably be the effect of where a European cannot adequately part of their produce to England or penda not merely on the fertility of It is to be hoped that the Government building. The sim-maintain his position on less than the United States, for good currency. ita roll. It depends on the extent
Under German rule they might be of its population. experiment will be successful, ple aim should be, it is suggested £20 per month.
obliged to export it to Germany, for that it can be shown that tene with all respect, to provide for
bad. ments can be built at a cost and the "overflow" population in the of a type suited to poor people tenements and to offer decent who can afford so very Ritle for quarters at the least possible their living quarters. It may price.
COUNT
THE
"TELEGRAPHS"
EVERYWHERE
source
The European сап only extract produce from tropical Africa by The peasant, as a man of property,
The third German category is that Afrienn labour. And African labour, might be better off, In practice his of the traders, the managers und in Tanganyika, is so weareo that it struggle for existence is just as hard, higher paid employees of the big has to be imported from adjoininz:
men of colonies, He is at the mercy of failing crops German firms. They