. The Civil engineer and architect's journal, scientific and railway gazette. Architecture; Civil engineering; Science. 301 THE CIVIL ENGINEER AND ARCHITECT'S JOURNAL. [October, ttention to regularity all the more striking is, that in order to make a front of pach ol these sides, ii great number of blank or we suppose sham windows glnzed liko the others, are introduced, viz., six out of the eight in both the mezzanine and principal floor, thus making a total of twenty-four shim windows I! Notwithstanding this license and that taken in regard to spacing the windows, some of tliem come in very a
. The Civil engineer and architect's journal, scientific and railway gazette. Architecture; Civil engineering; Science. 301 THE CIVIL ENGINEER AND ARCHITECT'S JOURNAL. [October, ttention to regularity all the more striking is, that in order to make a front of pach ol these sides, ii great number of blank or we suppose sham windows glnzed liko the others, are introduced, viz., six out of the eight in both the mezzanine and principal floor, thus making a total of twenty-four shim windows I! Notwithstanding this license and that taken in regard to spacing the windows, some of tliem come in very awkwardly in the interior, and in such a manner as utterly to destroy all symmetry : the hall, for instance, is chiefly lighted by one of the win- dows in the adjoining corridor, which is open to it; but instead of those windows being exactly on the line of the axis of that hall they arethrownoutof it, so as to fall in the line of one of the two pillars form- ing the screen between the corridors and the ends of the hall. Much con- sideration does not appear to have been given to bearings, for there are solid walls carried from back to front across the ceilings of some of the ground floor rooms, of just the same thickness as the external â walls ! at least so they are shown in the plan. And yet, notwithstand- ing all the incongruities we have pointed outânor are they the only ones that we detectâwe are told that Mr. Tite not only heartily ap- proved of the designâqiicsre the design or intention of a building being erectedâbut actually executed the drawings, at least had them executed in his own office. Executed, no doubt, they were with the utmost scrupulousness and literal fidelity as to following co/;!/; otherwise a few very much needed corrections would probably have been made in them. However, the design has answered our purpose better just as it is; and we dare say we have bestowed very far more notice upon it than it would have obtained from any one else, and so far it
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