Architect and engineer . I I * ^^t^:^^.. Cubes of carved stone, leading a checkered career: a tremendous stone canopy, supported from the face of another stone canopy decay. It was slipped into the saci-ed Kujimachi—Ku, near the greatavenue approach to the Imperial Palace. Its cost was six million yen,(about three million dollars U. S. A.) A thoroughly modern hotel of its size, equal to Americas best, andappropriate to Tokyos needs, could have been built for half that fantastic, prehistoric character is everywhere in evidence; the ac-companying photographs give l)ut a vague impressi
Architect and engineer . I I * ^^t^:^^.. Cubes of carved stone, leading a checkered career: a tremendous stone canopy, supported from the face of another stone canopy decay. It was slipped into the saci-ed Kujimachi—Ku, near the greatavenue approach to the Imperial Palace. Its cost was six million yen,(about three million dollars U. S. A.) A thoroughly modern hotel of its size, equal to Americas best, andappropriate to Tokyos needs, could have been built for half that fantastic, prehistoric character is everywhere in evidence; the ac-companying photographs give l)ut a vague impression of it. The super- 82 THE ARCHITECT AND ENGINEER ficial observer walks around its streets and court walls, and throughits public rooms and hallways and is impressed by the various and sun-dry things which are commonly called, remarkal)ly original. Its origin-ality is so antiquated that it embalms and munmiifies the brains of thebeholder—but not permanently. Recovery and self possession usuallyreturn on reaching the coarse gravel h
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