. The Civil engineer and architect's journal, scientific and railway gazette. Architecture; Civil engineering; Science. Fig. 2.—Side The effect in perspective may be conceived, and I ask whether excel- lence of detail could atone for such an outrage on architectural pro- yiriety and taste as a temple-form structure like this, with three stories in an order. This is an example of the effects of modern competition; where the successful architect, having had bis design adopted in con- sequence, it is said, of his private interest in the committee of ma- nagement, has not only the adva
. The Civil engineer and architect's journal, scientific and railway gazette. Architecture; Civil engineering; Science. Fig. 2.—Side The effect in perspective may be conceived, and I ask whether excel- lence of detail could atone for such an outrage on architectural pro- yiriety and taste as a temple-form structure like this, with three stories in an order. This is an example of the effects of modern competition; where the successful architect, having had bis design adopted in con- sequence, it is said, of his private interest in the committee of ma- nagement, has not only the advantage, as was understood at the time, of examining those of his competitors, during the six weeks which elapsed between the decision of the committee and the return of the designs to their respective authors, but is permitted to expend about twice the amount to which they were, in the first instance, limited, and this for the purpose of producing a building which is a perfect bur- lesque on all correct proportion. The execution is creditable to the contractor, but in consequence of having a very poor plaster cast to work from, the capitals are not at all like those of the example pro- fessed to be followed. The Union Bank follows its Welsh neighbour in Kder's list. I readily admit the beauty of the Ionic columns, in which a leafy termination has been adopted for the flutes, somewhat in the manner of those in the columns of the monument of Lysicrates. The capitals of the antae are also original and tasteful, and the bases of both, in which an inverted ovolo is used in place of the upper torus, are improvements on the common attic one; a similar base has been used by Mr. Foulston in the Plvmouth theatre. Beyond these details I can discover nothing in this design at all commendable, nor bearing the least trace of the t;>ste which seems to have dictated them. The pediment is filled entirely by the convolutions of an immense motto riband which Eder calls "bold;" would
Size: 1676px × 1490px
Photo credit: © The Book Worm / Alamy / Afripics
License: Licensed
Model Released: No
Keywords: ., boo, bookcentury1800, booksubjectarchitecture, booksubjectscience
