. The San Diego garden fair; personal impressions of the architecture, sculpture, horticulture, color scheme & other aesthetic aspects of the Panama California International Exposition . ard so much about exposition colorschemes of very elaborate scope that an effectiveuse of just a few strong primary colors becomesreally interesting in its simple contrasting feat-ures. There is no color at all on the buildingsanywhere. They are all painted white, with atinge of cream wherever they are temporary,and the great California Building has the soft,warm color of mature cement. And still colorseems to
. The San Diego garden fair; personal impressions of the architecture, sculpture, horticulture, color scheme & other aesthetic aspects of the Panama California International Exposition . ard so much about exposition colorschemes of very elaborate scope that an effectiveuse of just a few strong primary colors becomesreally interesting in its simple contrasting feat-ures. There is no color at all on the buildingsanywhere. They are all painted white, with atinge of cream wherever they are temporary,and the great California Building has the soft,warm color of mature cement. And still colorseems to run through everywhere, without occur-ring in great quantities. It is not a colorscheme of mellow middle tones spread over largesurfaces, but the piquant dash of bright blueand yellow or a daring moss green or again anorange which joyfully greets you from the manywindow openings of the buildings. Togetherwith the similarly candid notes of the tile on thegreat domes and minor turrets of other buildingswhich are completely covered with them, thisis all the color furnished by the hand of , nature in its abundance has addedother color schemes which we shall meet with [50]. DECORATIVE FLOWER URNS ON THE PRADO THE BUILDINGS later. Sloping toward the sea, the paved sur-face of the Plaza de Panama continues into thegreensward of the Esplanade, separated from itby a balustrade in order to preserve the fullmeaning of the great central space. On eitherside, west and east, are two pretentious build-ings of similar Spanish Renaissance type. Onthe west is the smaller, the Kern and TulareCounties Building, while on the east side standsthe much larger San Joaquin Valley former is simple and unpretentious, thoughmost attractive, while the latter has all theornateness of the ever-present Churrigueresquestyle. We have by this time arrived at the organ —that most impressive feature of the it is not very convincing. It ishard to understand the p
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