Identifier: architectenginee4416sanf (find matches)
Title: The Architect & engineer of California and the Pacific Coast
Year: 1905 (1900s)
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Subjects: Architecture Architecture Architecture Building
Publisher: San Francisco, Calif. : Architect and Engineer Co
Contributing Library: San Francisco Public Library
Digitizing Sponsor: San Francisco Public Library

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-•■■^iO.S Cb«j 2.1^ THE 1085(K> Architect and Engineer Of California Vol. XLIV JANUARY, 1916 No. 1
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Architectural Creations of Mr. Henry C. Smith, A. I. A. r.y r.. .1. S. (Allir.L, Architect. ilM salient features of city architecture are mainly dependent on conditions of material, climate, and environment. Thus Paris is full (in a stone quarry, London on a hed of clay. New York on a small peninsula. Hence the clet;ant stone facades of the French mctroiJoUsthe classic refinement of her splendid boulevards. London, like ISahylon of old, spreads itsL^reat bulk in a giant maze of brickwork: and the.ud of its ruddy tones, veiled in Thames mist,i^^Bfc ^^M gives its vistas a sombre harmony that comjien- ^^^^IIBBL sates for much that is plain and ugly on close ^^^^^^^ 41^^^.^ insjjection. Xew York, having no room to4^^^^^^^L ^^T^^^^ snread, rises bodily in the air, each building striv-iH^^^^^^^^^^H ing like a cluster of eucalyptus trees—to^^^^^^.^J^PP its neighbor. Now, obviously, the architects who .-iremainly responsible for Paris, London, and -XewYork have all had fundamentally the sam

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