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Provincial Buildings of the Orange Free State Bloemfontein, Free State

Date: 1960s Type: Provincial Buildings Status: Unknown

'Size, expensive services, finishes and decoration are not necessarily the ingredients of fine architecture.' '... this jumbo-size building ... does nothing to preserve the pleasant existing ambience ... and unfortunate siting cuts right through the axial system of the city' Greig (1971: 86) . 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. References: Greig, Doreen. 1971. A Guide to Architecture in South Africa. Cape Town: Howard Timmins. pg 86