Title: Official Guide to the Government Court: N.Z. Centennial Exhibition

Author: Centennial Branch

Publication details: Centennial Branch, Department of Internal Affairs, 1940, Wellington

Part of: The New Zealand Centennial Publications

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Architectural Branch

The drawings and photographs exhibited in this section are typical examples of buildings designed in this branch, and illustrate the progressive and up-to-date nature of the work carried out.

The aim in design has been to adhere as closely as possible to the inviolable canons of traditional architecture, avoiding extreme schools of modernism, yet embodying logical current trends, such as simplicity and functional ism, dictated by new, building materials, methods and conditions.

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This basis, combined with considerations of cost consistent with stability, convenience, and the importance of building, is the policy adopted in the designing of all buildings in the office of the Government Architect.