Design for a Village Hall (Architectural Competition)

Entry        Dan W Thomas under the motto “Dannwin” 

SOME REMARKS UPON A SERIES OF DESIGNS FOR A VILLAGE HALL - Judging by the response made to our invitation to architectural designers to submit designs for a Village Hall, the problem seems to have been one which has appealed to a considerable number of them, principally, it would appear, from the simple nature of the conditions, and also on account of the absence of any limit in cost — that bugbear of designers. This condition was intentionally omitted in order that each designer might befree to deal with the problem in his own way and with regard to local circumstances familiar to him, but the fact of the hall being intended for a village of course implied that the building was to be one in which simplicity and picturesqueness should be the dominant notes. These characteristics, the former especially, make for an economy in expenditure that was adhered to by nearly all those who sent in designs. Still, though on the whole this is true, there are cases in which the estimated cost seems altogether too high for a village hall and its simple adjuncts. “Dannwin,” for example, proposes £3,730 as the cost of a building which certainly has a remarkably good plan, and in which he introduces a space for properties {see illustrations, pp. 134, 135).

Reference    The International Studio Vol xliii March 1911 page 132, 134 and 135