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Show J Artist's conception shows how new Church office building will look in of a new general office exclusive use of the Church will begin this summer, the First Presidency announced this week. 25-sto- Construction The newest high-ris- e building to be constructed In the Utah capital will be located on the same block and immediately to the north of the present Church Administration Building at 47 E. South Temple. The Church Building Committee, under direction of Chairman Mark B. Garff, will have supervision and direction of construction. Mr. Garff said plans and specifications will be ready for distribution to invited bidders by May 15. It is expected bids will be received by the committee within 60 days with a bid opening scheduled for July 15. Mr. Garff explained that it is the intent to award the construction work to the legitimate low bidder complying with the contract documents. to be used The building is for single occupancy exclusively for Church departments and auxiliaries, which are presently housed around Salt Lake City. Among the departments to be housed in the new structure will be the building committee, financial department, Genealogical Society library and departments, the Church Historians offices and library, Church welfare department and all auxiliaries, "2nd Century" downtown Salt Lake City. over-a- ll excepting the Relief Society which occupies its own building on the northwest corner of the same block. The General Authorities, including the First Presidency, Council of the Twelve, Assistants to the Twelve, Patriarch to the Church, the First Council of the Seventy, and the Presiding Bishopric will continue to occupy the present Church Administration Building. Designer of the modem structure is George Cannon Young, prominent Salt Lake architect. The building will be constructed over the three-stor- y underground parking plaza now in use. When the the footings and plaza was constructed In 19G4-Gsteel columns upon which the new office building will be built were installed. The building will include wings four stories high to the east and west of the center tower. Construction will be of welded steel, with & facing of precast stone in white quartzite. Floors will be of cellular steel, with a concrete wearing surface. hollow-cor- e The double-T- , construction of the exterior surface of the building will provide built-in sun control. The building will have two fronts north and south with the columns of the colonnade on each side being four stories high. The main front of the building will be to the south facing a landscaped plaza between the new structure and the present administration building. Construction on new Church office building is to begin soon. Week ending April 1,9,1 . church-- 3 |