former Dental and Medical Chambers, Hastings

This streamline building in Hastings, NZ is the former Dental and Medical Chambers dating from 1935 and designed by Davies and Phillips.

The symmetrical single storey building has offices with curved walls projecting from the facade at each end.

Curves at the ends of a low, stepped wall bearing three heavily incised lines mark the main entrance.

Then the entrance itself is set back into the building with curved walls creating a shallow porch area.

Perhaps the most distinctive feature is the triangle-shaped window projecting from the wall above the entrance.

Reference: Spanish Mission Hastings - Style of Five Decades, Peter Shaw and Peter Hallett