§ MR. BERESFORD HOPE, in moving an address for a copy of a memorial presented to the Treasury, the War Department, and the Office of Public Works, from the Royal Institute of British Architects, in reference to the recent competitions for model barracks and for public offices said, that the exhibition of the designs for public offices last year was fresh in the memory of all; but it was not so generally known, that some time before there had been an exhibition at Burlington House of designs for model barracks, and he had to complain that faith had not been kept with the architects who had been in- 782 vited to compete. It was a part of the understanding that those gentlemen whose designs should be accepted, should be intrusted with the execution of the works; but this compact had not been observed in either ease. The gentlemen who had been successful in their designs for the model barracks had not been allowed to carry them out either at Aldershot or any other place; and in the case of the public offices, all the promises which had been made to the architects had been thrown to the winds, and an attempt had been made by the Treasury to force upon the Department of Works an old worn-out plan designed years ago by a gentleman who was very respectable in his private character, but who was notoriously unfit to execute any great national work. Of course, such an outrage as this had excited the indignation of the architectural profession, the members of which, through their representative body, the Royal Institute of British Architects, had adopted a strong memorial to the Treasury, the Department of Public Works, and the War Office on the subject. It was for a copy of this memorial that he now moved.
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Address for,—
Copy of a Memorial presented to the Treasury, the War Department, and the Office of Public Works, from the Royal Institute of British Architects, in reference to the recent competitions for Model Barracks and for Public Offices.
§ Motion agreed to.