Frank Emley


Frank Emley was an English architect, who played an important part in designing several buildings in early Johannesburg in the practices of Leck and Emley and Emley and Williamson.

Early life

Emley worked as an assistant in his father's firm which specialised in church fittings. He is only known to have designed one building in England, Corbridge Town Hall.

Style

During his time in Johannesburg, Emley designed masterpieces in a variety of styles, ranging from the Victorian Eclecticism of Hohenheim, to the grand Edwardian Baroque of the Rand Club, The Neo-Classicism of The university of the Witwatersrand to his Art Deco sky scrapers of the 1930s.

List of important buildings