. Architect and engineer. 44 THE ARCHITECT AND ENGINEER inps here, as cathedrals do elsewhere; the conditions on Nob Hill areentirely new and promising of excellent co-ordinate results in a new way. The Fairmont now looks its best: the towering neighbors dignify itsblock forms and colossal scale; its form and mass seemed inappropriateto dominate the eminence, whereas the Mark Hopkins is faithfully thepinnacle of Nob Hill. And Nob Hill is the revivified social mecca of ; the engrossed cosmopolitan surge will be there. Incidentally, Nob Hill requires a stately garage; one of fine ap
. Architect and engineer. 44 THE ARCHITECT AND ENGINEER inps here, as cathedrals do elsewhere; the conditions on Nob Hill areentirely new and promising of excellent co-ordinate results in a new way. The Fairmont now looks its best: the towering neighbors dignify itsblock forms and colossal scale; its form and mass seemed inappropriateto dominate the eminence, whereas the Mark Hopkins is faithfully thepinnacle of Nob Hill. And Nob Hill is the revivified social mecca of ; the engrossed cosmopolitan surge will be there. Incidentally, Nob Hill requires a stately garage; one of fine appear-ance, equal to any building now or hereafter built. Curb parking on theplateau will only accommodate about 250 machines, when every availablespace is taken, including the 300-car garage in the of the newhotel. Nob Hill is THE growing social center where people will con-. SKV LINE VIKW (11 MAUK HOTKL. KKANCISCOrhotoKraph taken from Telephone BuildinK stantly surge in motor cars which not only deserve to be housed, butrequire to be centralized under reliable control and prompt telephone call. The main entrance of the Mark Hopkins faces a triangular plaza,which is in fact an extension of the Nob Hill plateau, pedestalled on wallsflanking precipitous Mason and California streets. This plaza will, , trafiic difficulties which are insuperable, but which arescarcely less uncommon elsewhere. Ye olden days provided ye ladys carriage with separate drivewayand porte cochere entrance; only pedestrians came and went by way ofvestibule entrance. Superior cleanliness and reliability of motor-poworthan ordains that the automobile shall approach the mainportal, everywhere, hence the driveway, main entrance and porte cochere JANUARY, 1927 49
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