Pacific service magazine . The Auditorium, ground floor. Stock Transfer department on the ground floor. due in part to the personality of its archi-tect, in part to the demands of the man orgroup of men for whom it is built, andlargely to the peculiar requirements andneeds of those by whom it is to be occu-pied. A large office building, if only onaccount of its size and importance, requiresan architectural treat-ment worthy of its char-acter. Experience has givenmore or less successful so-lutions of the office build-ing problem. It has beenshown that the simplegrouping of a multitudeof element
Pacific service magazine . The Auditorium, ground floor. Stock Transfer department on the ground floor. due in part to the personality of its archi-tect, in part to the demands of the man orgroup of men for whom it is built, andlargely to the peculiar requirements andneeds of those by whom it is to be occu-pied. A large office building, if only onaccount of its size and importance, requiresan architectural treat-ment worthy of its char-acter. Experience has givenmore or less successful so-lutions of the office build-ing problem. It has beenshown that the simplegrouping of a multitudeof elements into a fewdivisions or parts of acomposition is necessary toachieve that unity whichis so essential if the build-ing is to count as a singleunit. One of the ways ofgrouping is the division ofthe building into a highand important base, a gen-eral shaft and, finally, acrowning motive. This isthe scheme of composition 148 Pacific Service Magazine adopted in the Pacific Gasand Electric Companysbuilding. The base of the build
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