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In October 1959, the prestigious Architectural Review published a special issue featuring the latest design styles from the four Commonwealth countries of Canada, South Africa, Australia and New Zealand. Dorset Street Flats was featured in the section on Housing in New Zealand.

Flats, Dorset Street, Christchurch (architect, F.M. Warren), 12, 13. The building comprises eight flats, four on each floor. The four ground-floor flats each have their own private gardens surrounded by high walls. Walls are of load-bearing concrete block, painted white inside and out; the roof is timber-framed covered with corrugated iron, with ceilings following the pitch of the roof. Heating is by free-standing Norwegian stoves, set on quarry tile bases.


“Commonwealth 1: Special Issue”, The Architectural Review, Vol 126 Number 752 (October 1959), J.M. Richards, Nikolaus Pevsner, H. de C. Hastings, Hugh Casson (eds), 1959, p.212.




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