The Civil engineer and architect's journal, scientific and railway gazette . rely providing the extra accommodation re-quired, in an additional building merely tacked on to the first say that he at all considered the circumstances of the ease—theopportunity which it held out for architectural improvement, wouldbe to accuse him of downright incapacity. The most prudent ex-cuse for him is that he was called upon so suddenly to prepare draw-ings for the purpose, that he had no time to collect his thouglits,much less any ideas, those which he miglit else have had being putto flight by the e
The Civil engineer and architect's journal, scientific and railway gazette . rely providing the extra accommodation re-quired, in an additional building merely tacked on to the first say that he at all considered the circumstances of the ease—theopportunity which it held out for architectural improvement, wouldbe to accuse him of downright incapacity. The most prudent ex-cuse for him is that he was called upon so suddenly to prepare draw-ings for the purpose, that he had no time to collect his thouglits,much less any ideas, those which he miglit else have had being putto flight by the expeditiousness imposed upon him. Whereas liadhe been allowed to apply himself to the task leisurely and quietly,he would have devised some means of preserving the Marl)le Arch,and not only retaining it, but giving it increased value and im-portance, as the focus point of a new facade. General, vague suggestions of this kind, it will perha])s be said,are very easily made, but we here offer somewhat more than amere shapeless, unembodied idea, by showing in the annexed cut. how the Arch could have been retained and connected with theadvanced line of new l)uildings. VVe would have continued thestylobate and order of the Arch by two siveeping double colonnades(quadrant in plan). This would not only have given gi-eater privacyto the court-yard, the stylobate being suflSciently high to preventits being looked into, but would also have given it gi-eater apparentspace than before, when that space was so indistinctly defined bythe palisading, that as seen from the Palace the Arch appeared tostand as quite a distinct and insiJated oliject in the Park. Ac-cording to the plan here shown, it would, on the contrary, ii.^Onection with the colonnades attached to it, have formed a highlyscenic piece of architecture, full of play of light and shade and per-spective effect, and admitting a view of the landscape scenery inthe Park in the background. As an embellishment to the courtthere might hav
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