The Kite Shape
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Court House With The Kite Shape
The strange looking building in the accompanying photograph is an architect’s model of the new Court House to be erected at Popondetta, in Papua.
The design is based on the tradi tional “long house” of Papua although most of the long-houses were found in the Western part of Papua and not so much in the Northern District of which Popon detta is headquarters.
The Popondetta Court House will be a prototype for a number of others to be erected all over the Territory. , .
A feature of this building is what they call a kite-shaped roof, which can be seen quite clearly in the photograph. The roof will be of galvanised iron, the two end walls of cement bricks and the long side walls will consist of alternate panels of plywood and coloured enamel louvres.