. Garden cities in theory and practice; being an amplification of a paper on the potentialities of applied science in a garden city, read before Section F of the British Association . Offices of Messrs. Willans and Robinson, Ltd., Works of Messrs. Willans and Robinson, Ltd., Rugby. FA CTOR Y GARDENS 3 71 I will give a few examples as typical of theexcellent practice of leaving gardens, not only infront of the offices, but in front of the works, andalso between the offices and the factories. Indoing so I will confine myself principally to engi-neering works, and to those of my own perso
. Garden cities in theory and practice; being an amplification of a paper on the potentialities of applied science in a garden city, read before Section F of the British Association . Offices of Messrs. Willans and Robinson, Ltd., Works of Messrs. Willans and Robinson, Ltd., Rugby. FA CTOR Y GARDENS 3 71 I will give a few examples as typical of theexcellent practice of leaving gardens, not only infront of the offices, but in front of the works, andalso between the offices and the factories. Indoing so I will confine myself principally to engi-neering works, and to those of my own personalfriends. One of the first firms to adopt it was,perhaps, Messrs. Willans and Robinson, Limited,the well-known engineers. The extensive gardenin front of their offices—the facade of which, it willbe observed, is of very pleasing elevation—is shownj in one of the illustrations, whilst that forming the! margin of the works, which, it will also be seen,possess again the merit of ornateness, is shown inanother. As Mr. Robinson writes me in a strainexactly in accordance with my own views and thoseI am endeavouring to inculcate, I think, instead ofdescription, I cannot do better than to insert hisletter. Victoria Works, Rugby, 1 S
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