Design, Stained Glass Windows, Raukura

Maker
Walker, James

Object detail

Brief Description
Material relating to stained glass windows designed by James Walker and Jenny Granville for Raukura, a low-rise office development built for BP Group in Remuera, Auckland, between November 1981 and April 1983.

a) Two photographs affixed to an A3 sheet of tracing paper. The photograph on the left shows the entranceway from the foyer. The photograph has been taken with a fisheye lens. The photograph on the right shows a detail of one of the windows.

b) A photograph, a postcard and a drawing affixed to an A3 sheet of tracing paper. The photograph shows a detail of one of the windows. The postcard is printed with a drawing of the exterior of Raukura. The pencil drawing represents the design for the window shown in the adjacent photograph.

c) Set of five drawings affixed to an A3 sheet of tracing paper. The drawings record the design for the windows of Raukura. They are signed J [Jenny] Granville 1982.

d) Newspaper cutting entitled: BP in a Stately Setting. New Zealand Herald, 18 April 1983, page 2.

e) Label reading: design - James Walker/Jenny Granville, architect - Graham Smith Architects, owner - BP Oil New Zealand Limited
Production period
Production technique
Media/Materials description
Photographs mounted on tracing paper. Drawing in coloured pencil on tracing paper and card. Drawing in ink on tracing paper and card. Newspaper cutting mounted on card. Label printed in ink on black paper.
Measurements
Height x Width: 481 x 369mm
Height x Width: 481 x 369mm
Height x Width: 481 x 369mm
Height x Width: 78 x 137mm
Height x Width: 88 x 227mm
Subject period
Subject date
1983
Credit line
from the estate of James Walker
Other number(s)
2011/14/22/40, 87373
Accession number
2011/14/22/40

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