ARCHITECTURAL COMPETITION.
Under this head we shall give notices of pending competitions, and shall feel obliged by our friends forwarding us the accounts of what may fall in their way of this character. We shall also be happy to give engravings of the selected designs; and think that, by such publicity, the present very defective system of decision may be amended. Publicity is sometimes a remedy when more direct measures have failed.
Kingston Union.—Designs for an Infirmary.—To be sent in by the 6th of March.
New Church, Torquay.—11th March.
Almshouses, Spalding.—6th March.
Almshouses, Ringwood.—1st March.
County Asylum, Oxford.—10th March.
The following contracts are advertised in different papers, and we have kept a register of the particulars of each at the office, which may be referred to on application. In the continuation of this plan, which we flatter ourselves will be of service to our readers, material assistance will be rendered by the forwarding of papers from our country friends, or by any other means of notification, of which they may choose to avail themselves.
New Church at Hildenborough, near Tunbridge, Kent.—Tenders to be sent on the 2nd of March. Mr. Ewan Christian, 44, Bloomsbury Square, Architect.
Railway Station Buildings, and other Masonry, &c., Hunt’s Bank, Manchester.—Plans open from the 13th of February; tenders to be sent in on the 6th of March. Mr. Gooch, Oldham Road, Manchester.
Also,Formation and Completion of The Branch Railway To Halifax, 1 mile and 55 chains.—The same time and parties.
West London Railway.—Contractors to attend at 35, Great George Street, Westminster, at 11 o’clock of the 20th inst. Tenders to be sent in on the 3rd of March.
Iron Bridge, Great Yarmouth.—Engineers, Messrs. Birch, 3, Cannon Row, Westminster, 20th February to the 11th of March.
Pumps and Wells, Metropolis Roads.—Tenders to be sent in on the 22nd inst.
Greenwich Union, Additions.—Mr. R. P. Brown, Architect, Greenwich; time for receiving tenders, Feb. 23.
Iron Dwelling House.—A large iron mansion has been built by Mr. W. Laycock, of Old Hall-street, in this town, the inventor of a new principle in the application of iron to building purposes. The fabric, which has been made in separate plates, is now erecting for the purpose of public exhibition previous to its transmission to Africa, where it will be used as a palace by one of the native kings. This singular building has three floors exclusive of an attic. The basement story is 7 feet high; the second, 10 feet; and the third, in which is the grand suite of state apartments, is 12 feet high. In these his sable majesty will give his state audiences. The principal reception room, the presence chamber, is 50 feet by 30, and ornamented throughout in a style of most gorgeous magnificence. To counteract any annoyance from heat, the inventor has contrived the means of admitting a current of air, which can be regulated at pleasure, to pass through an aperture left between the outer plate and inner panel.—Liverpool Albion.
The late appointment of Mr. Donaldson, as Professor of Architecture to the London University, Mr. Hosking being previously inducted to the similar appointment of King’s College, are significant signs of the times as to the growing importance of architectural practice. Mr. Vignoles is Professor of Engineering at the former institution, Mr. Dyce is the appointed professor at King’s College of the Arts of Design and Architectural Enrichment, and is also Superintendent of the very important School of Design, founded by Government at Somerset House. It will be our business, as we proceed, to make our readers acquainted with the facilities and advantages offered by these and other institutions and appointments.
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