Hamilton Chambers (Wellington, N.Z.)

Date: [ca 1960-1979]

From: Stephenson&Turner NZ Ltd :Photographs relating to New Zealand architectural projects

Reference: PAColl-9842-40

Description: Buildings by Stephenson and Turner include - Photographs from an album showing buildings designed in New Zealand and Australia in the 1960s. These include - Royal Exchange building, Wellington. BOAC booking office, Hamilton Chambers, Wellington. General Motors New Zealand LTD, Trentham, Lower Hutt. The Pavillion Restaurant, Kirkaldie & Stains, Wellington. ANZ Bank, Courtenay Place, Wellington. Office for Fibremakers, Wiri, Auckland. Auckland Methodist Central Mission buildings, Civic Square, Auckland. ANZ House, Auckland. Bank of New South Wales, Auckland. South Pacific Hotel, Auckland. Acute block, Middlemore Hospital, Auckland. Main acute block, Auckland Hospital. Unilever House, Sydney. CML Assurance head office, Melbourne. St Hilda's College of Residence, Melbourne Universty. Pearl Assurance House, Adelaide. Queen Victoria Maternity Hospital, Adelaide. Marion Shopping Centre, South Australia. Floor plans for the BNZ Centre, Wellington. Exterior view of the Bank of New Zealand building, Christchurch. Wellington office interiors designed in the 1970s. Buildings include - DFC building, Grey Street, Wellington. Norwich Union House, Wellington. Westpac Bank, Wellington. Singapore Air Lines, Wellington. Other photographs include - BNZ Centre display in Shell House, 1972. Group of exterior and Interior views of Sprott House, Karori, Wellington, 1971. Exterior views of the Grand Hotel, Wellington, November 1971. Exterior view of the Waterloo Hotel, Wellington, November 1971. View of Featherston Street from Willis Street, November 1971. View of Willis Street looking south, November 1971. Exterior and interior views of BP House, Customhouse Quay, Wellington, 1971. Exterior and interior views of the IBM building, 155-161 the Terrace, Wellington, October 1971, Source of title - Title supplied by Library Quantity: 68 b&w original photographic print(s). 12 colour original photographic print(s). Provenance: Donated by Stephenson&Turner NZ Ltd, Wellington, in 2011

Date: 1958 - 1964 - 1966 - 1959 - 1967

From: Gooch, Mitchell and MacDiarmid Ltd :[Architectural plans. 1906-1995].

By: Mitchell & Mitchell and Partners (Firm)

Reference: Plans-2002-058-019-064/084

Description: Plans for Hamilton Chambers adjacent to the T & G Building (Australasian T & G Mutual Life Assurance Society), Lambton Quay, Wellington. Includes alterations to the seventh floor, egress plans for several floors, a plan by H Moult Ltd (lift engineers) for a proposed replacement of the passenger lift 22 Nov 1965, and a set of plans by Mitchell & Mitchell and Partners for the new lift (1966), including a plan showing temporary openings at 4th and 7th floor levels between Hamilton Chambers and T&G Buildings during the erection of the new lift in Hamilton Chambers. Quantity: 21 plan(s). Physical Description: Diazo prints and ink drawings on sheets, sizes up to about 590 x 770 mm.

Date: 1945 - 1950

From: Lodge, Nevile Sidney, 1918-1989 :[Four early cartoons. ca 1945-1950].

Reference: C-132-899

Description: Left half of a cartoon in two sheets; other half at B-156-133. Shows fifteen panels of a car touring around the buildings of Wellington. The driver points out many named buildings. All are currently housing government departments. The named buildings include: Ford Building, Todd's Building, Hope-Gibbons, James Smith's, Prudential Insurance, T & G [Macarthy's?], Hamilton Chambers, State Fire Building, Stout Street Building, Public Trust Building, Hotel Cecil. Other Titles - There's the Ford Building Date estimated as post Second World War. Estimated as pre-1950 because Lodge had not yet established his habit of incorporating the date into his signature. Quantity: 1 original cartoon(s). Physical Description: Ink drawing 320 x 445 mm. Provenance: Donated by Mr Frank Mitchell in 2002. Previously owned by his brother V Leonard W Mitchell.

Date: [ca 1932]

From: Burt, Gordon Onslow Hilbury, 1893-1968 :Negatives

Reference: 1/1-015570-G

Description: From left to right, Harcourt's Buildings, Hamilton Chambers and the T&G building on Lambton Quay, Wellington, just up from Panama Street. Also visible at street level are signs for Paramount Millinery and Aubrey Gualter & Co. The T & G building was built 1926-1927. The architects were A & K Henderson of Melbourne. Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s).