DOI issue:
No. 117 (November, 1906)
DOI article:Recent designs in domestic architecture
DOI Page / Citation link: https://doi.org/10.11588/diglit.28250#0069
Recent Designs in Domestic Architecture
PORT SUNLIGHT COTTAGE COMPETITION: DESIGN BY “KEYSTONE'’
FIRST PRIZE FOR SEVEN COTTAGES (DEACON & HORSBURGH)
PORT SUNLIGHT COTTAGE COMPETITION : DESIGN BY “ R. I. B. A.”
SECOND PRIZE FOR SEVEN COTTAGES (T. T. REES)
PORT SUNLIGHT COTTAGE COMPETITION: DESIGN BY “ FECHT FAIR'’
SECOND PRIZE FOR FIVE COTTAGES (T. J. M. REID)
No one is disposed to demur to generosity in this
direction, even—though some may regard it as
extravagance—when the artistic result as a whole
is so well approved. Under this general feeling
of approval there naturally came a rather liberal
response from members of the Liverpool Archi-
tectural Society when Messrs. Lever Brothers
offered for competition among its members two
sites, one for a block of seven cottages, to be de-
signed by architects in practice; the other for five
cottages, for competitive designs by draughtsmen
and junior assistants. Rather more than eighty
sets of designs were submitted under mottoes, and
Mr. W. H. Lever adjudicated. The accommoda-
tion required was to be that provided in cottages
throughout the village : a living-room (with range),
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PORT SUNLIGHT COTTAGE COMPETITION: DESIGN BY “KEYSTONE'’
FIRST PRIZE FOR SEVEN COTTAGES (DEACON & HORSBURGH)
PORT SUNLIGHT COTTAGE COMPETITION : DESIGN BY “ R. I. B. A.”
SECOND PRIZE FOR SEVEN COTTAGES (T. T. REES)
PORT SUNLIGHT COTTAGE COMPETITION: DESIGN BY “ FECHT FAIR'’
SECOND PRIZE FOR FIVE COTTAGES (T. J. M. REID)
No one is disposed to demur to generosity in this
direction, even—though some may regard it as
extravagance—when the artistic result as a whole
is so well approved. Under this general feeling
of approval there naturally came a rather liberal
response from members of the Liverpool Archi-
tectural Society when Messrs. Lever Brothers
offered for competition among its members two
sites, one for a block of seven cottages, to be de-
signed by architects in practice; the other for five
cottages, for competitive designs by draughtsmen
and junior assistants. Rather more than eighty
sets of designs were submitted under mottoes, and
Mr. W. H. Lever adjudicated. The accommoda-
tion required was to be that provided in cottages
throughout the village : a living-room (with range),
55