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Date: 1937 Type: Flats with shops to street Status: Demolished Street: Andries St

(SAB Mar 1937:49, tend) Notes from THE MODERN FLAT 1948 The block occupies an important frontage on one of the main streets in Pretoria. On the ground floor shops are planned round an open courtyard. TYPE. One-room flats ACCESS. Access gallery, staircase and lifts. NO. OF FLATS. Shops on ground floor. Offices on first floor. Four upper floors. Six flats per floor. Total: 24 flats. CONSTRUCTION. Reinforced concrete frame, exposed on main front. Brick infilling, faced with black terrazzo tiles. Ref: Yorke, FRS and Gibberd, F. 1948. THE MODERN FLAT. London: The Architectural Press. p 154 Submitted by William MARTINSON Books and articles that reference Hochstetter House Herbert, Gilbert. 1975. Martienssen & the international style: The modern movement in South African architecture. Cape Town - Rotterdam: AA Balkema. pg 152 Yorke, FRS & Gibberd, F. 1948. The modern flat. London: The Architectural Press. pg 154