. Architect and engineer. he republic by IEnfant and for-gotten for so many years unfolds, Washington will eclipse in archi-tectural beauty Ancient Rome, once the glory of its emperors. 72 THE ARCHITECT AND ENGINEER The new plans for the beautification of Washington take in thewhole of the triangle between Pennsylvania avenue and the Mall. Thereare some twenty-four city blocks in this area and eventually they will becovered with government buildings and parks. The plan provides fornew homes for the Departments of Justice, Commerce and Labor andseveral of the larger bureaus, such as the Archive
. Architect and engineer. he republic by IEnfant and for-gotten for so many years unfolds, Washington will eclipse in archi-tectural beauty Ancient Rome, once the glory of its emperors. 72 THE ARCHITECT AND ENGINEER The new plans for the beautification of Washington take in thewhole of the triangle between Pennsylvania avenue and the Mall. Thereare some twenty-four city blocks in this area and eventually they will becovered with government buildings and parks. The plan provides fornew homes for the Departments of Justice, Commerce and Labor andseveral of the larger bureaus, such as the Archives Bureau. The UnitedStates Supreme Court is to have a building all of its own, and the littlechamber in the capitol that it now occupies and which once served as thesenate chamber, can be utilized for some other purpose. Washington hasnot kept pace with the growth of the nation, except in a political wayand now politics is to be set aside that the capital city may more trulyrepresent a great and still growing world IKN-AND-INK DRAWING BY CHARLES E. PERRY JANUARY, 1927 73 S^NT PAVrs EPISCOPAL CUVRCU 5VRLINGAME, CALIFORNIA. by WaCillam, /Irchitect IN planning the new St. Pauls Church, now under construction inBurlingame, California, one of the problems was to obtain a deepreveal and appearance of massiveness such as is conveyed by stonemasonry. Stone was eliminated at the outset on account of cost, andpre-cast blocks used alone would not give good structural strength fora building of this type, having wide arches and high unsupported type of construction employed is a continuous reinforced con-crete frame of beams and columns and a six-inch reinforced curtain wallwith lugs around all openings to obtain the desired reveal. The objectwas constantly kept in view of obtaining a stiff structure well tied to-gether that would act as a unit under earthquake vibrations and thisgives the added assurance of small and localized cracks due to shrink-age, temperature and pos
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