Basic Site Details Name: | Local Government Board competition, design for a tenement | City or county: | | Country: | Scotland | Parish: | | Status: | | Grid ref: | | Notes: | John Arthur's design was illustrated in Building News with the following note
FIRST PRIZE DESIGN. The two single pages giving the lay-out of the site, and the plan, section and elevations of the tenement dwellings in the second section. show the first prize design, of which Mr. John Arthur, IA, Licentiate RIBA of 137, West Regent Street, Glasgow, is the architect. The cubic contents, with 16 inch hollow brick walls, rough-casted, are stated at 138,912 cubic feet. The ground floor to be of reinforced concrete and sawdust, covered in rooms with 7/8th inch. flooring, and in sculleries the flooring is cemented. The upper floors of wood joisting and 7/8th inch flooring in rooms. Reinforced concrete and cement floor in sculleries. Roofs, home timber, covered with slates. The several rooms are all carefully figured. We also give the scale. [Building News 9 April 1919 Page 222 ]
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EventsThe following date-based events are associated with this building: | | From | To | Event type | Notes | | 1919 | | Design exhibited | Competition designs |
PeopleDesign and ConstructionThe following individuals or organisations have carried out design/construction work. Where architects or practices worked together, matching letters appear beside their names in the Partnership Group column. | | Name | Role | Partnership Group | From | To | Notes | | John Arthur | | | 1919 | | Design for tenement exhibited | | William Mitchell | | | 1919 | | Plans for tenement exhibited |
ReferencesBibliographic ReferencesThe following books contain references to this building: | | Author(s) | Date | Title | Part | Publisher | Notes | | RSA | 1919 | | | | 780 (Mitchell); 792 (Arthur) |
Periodical ReferencesThe following periodicals contain references to this building: | | Periodical Name | Date | Edition | Publisher | Notes | | Building News | 9 April 1919 | | | p222 and illustrations |
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