43 Symonds Street, Grafton-Newmarket, Auckland
The curved façade gives elegance to this State built modernist apartment block. Designed in 1942 by Frederick Newman an architect who is best known for his Waikato hydro power stations and believed in a significant role for the government is establishing adequate living conditions for the nation. Construction of the flats was not completed until 1947.
Ken Davis considers this his favourite modernist building.
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