No_4_August_and_September__1939 — Page 56

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Hong Kong Builder

(From "Building")

In the design of a new block of FLATS AT BRIGHTON the very difficult problem of co-relating a multiple series of internal cellular domestic units into the semblance of external unification has been magnificently resolved. The fenestrational handling is most skilfully contrived and combined with the patterning of the balcony group- ing the effect is satisfying to a degree. Not often in this type of work can there be found so much to praise and so little to condemn as in this example. Its chief distinction lies in the rational expression in elevational term of the plan and structure of the building; an expression which, unforced as it is, achieves an innate comeliness of mass, line, and contour.

MARINE GATE FLATS, BRIGHTON

Architects: Wimperis, Simpson & Guthrie, F.F.R.I.B.A.