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Medical Centre Central Johannesburg, Gauteng HANSON, TOMKIN and FINKELSTEIN: Architect

Date: 1946 Type: Offices Status: Unknown 1947 SAIA Award of Merit Street: Jeppe Street

New style office building with regular plain modular fenestration for flexible partitioning of floor plan, an example soon followed by others, creating 'a cliff-like' street perspective' devoid of expression' (Greig, 1971: 148. Received an Institute of South African Architects Award of Merit soon thereafter). All truncated references not fully cited below are those of Joanna Walker's original text and cited in full in the 'Bibliography' entry of the Lexicon. Books and articles that reference Medical Centre Chipkin, Clive M. 1993. Johannesburg Style - Architecture & Society 1880s - 1960s. Cape Town: David Phillip. pg 246 Greig, Doreen. 1971. A Guide to Architecture in South Africa. Cape Town: Howard Timmins. pg 148