The Architectural magazine . fare into Dukes Court, might be built upon or not, as oc-casion should require. Yet, even were that portion of the easternfacade to remain a mere screen, without any rooms behind it,the thoroughfare itself must be enclosed on both sides. Wellaware am I that there would have been difficulties first of allto be got over, before what is here recommended could havebeen carried into effect; but they might have been materiallylessened by giving up to the premises against which the build-ing would thus be made to abut the piece of ground z, as in-demnification for the inc
The Architectural magazine . fare into Dukes Court, might be built upon or not, as oc-casion should require. Yet, even were that portion of the easternfacade to remain a mere screen, without any rooms behind it,the thoroughfare itself must be enclosed on both sides. Wellaware am I that there would have been difficulties first of allto be got over, before what is here recommended could havebeen carried into effect; but they might have been materiallylessened by giving up to the premises against which the build-ing would thus be made to abut the piece of ground z, as in-demnification for the inconvenience sustained; the conditionbeing that the windows, in the part so added to them, should lookinto Dukes Court. An elevation of the eastern facade, as thus reshaped and ex-tended, is shown in fig. 8., which the reader may compare withthat in p. 27. fig. 2. The curve, with the two columns in it, at ihe south angle,would not, indeed, totally conceal the oblique position of the 60 Critical Vieisc of the National Galleri/.. two fronts with regard to each other, but it would prevent thatobhquity from being at all offensive : neither could it be ob-jected that this curve would require that there should be a simi-lar one at the western extremity of the principal facade, theextremities themselves being set considerably back, and the dis-tance between them being so great, that they can hardly be seenat the same time from any point of view, more than at the 9. gives the plan of the upper half of the building;namely, that belonging to the Royal Academy, from which thewhole of that floor may be perfectly understood ; the two halvesbeing in every respect similar. How far the architect has eco-nomised the space allowed him will be seen almost at a glance ;for the whole of the space between the staircase on this sideand the corresponding one opposite (that is, an extent of 100 ft.)constitutes merely the upper part of the entrance halls, and theintervening one, which separates
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