Mullions and Smith

McDonald, Mullions & Smith (later Mullions & Smith) was an Auckland-based architecture practice that was active in the 1920s and 1930s. The practice designed the Waitemata and Manukau Councils Chambers (1922), Shortland Flats (1923), Medical and Dental Chambers (Lister Building) (1924) and Chancery Chambers(1925), along with offices for the Nestle and Anglo Swiss Condensed Milk Company (Australasia) on Ghuznee Street in Wellington in 1931.

Principal designer was Canadian architect Sholto Smith(c.1881 – 1936) who moved from Saskatchewan to Auckland in 1920, and worked alongside Charles Fleming McDonald (1869-1922)  and Thomas Coulthard Mullions(1878-1957). The practice was notable for its use of reinforced concrete in Gothic-revival and Stripped Classical architectural styles.

 

 

Sources:
OBITUARY, New Zealand Herald, 14 July 1936

Mew, Geoff & Adrian Humphris. “Raupo to Deco: Wellington Styles and Architects 1840 – 1940” (Wellington: Steel Roberts Aotearoa, 2014) 

Tyler, Linda. “McDonald, Mullions and Smith Architects: An Open Architecture for Auckland in the 1920s” in Proceedings of the Society of Architectural Historians, Australia and New Zealand: 30, Open, edited by Alexandra Brown and Andrew Leach (Gold Coast, Queensland: SAHANZ, 2013)