. The Civil engineer and architect's journal, scientific and railway gazette. Architecture; Civil engineering; Science. Owing to the peculiarity or singularity of both these ideas, the re- semblance between them will probably be thought far more striking tlian the difference, since the second one also shows a room whose ends are convex in plan, and which is otherwise very similarly ar- ranged. The situation here given to the fire-place would be in itself too trifling a variation to call for notice, were it not that it materially alters the character of the whole, by leaving the entrance recess
. The Civil engineer and architect's journal, scientific and railway gazette. Architecture; Civil engineering; Science. Owing to the peculiarity or singularity of both these ideas, the re- semblance between them will probably be thought far more striking tlian the difference, since the second one also shows a room whose ends are convex in plan, and which is otherwise very similarly ar- ranged. The situation here given to the fire-place would be in itself too trifling a variation to call for notice, were it not that it materially alters the character of the whole, by leaving the entrance recess en- lirelv 0[ien to the room ; and in consequence, the elevation of that end liecomes precisely similar to the opposite one, each of them present- ii!g three open intercolumns, formed in this instance merelv by a di- style in antis, consequently with two columns less than in the other plan. A more important distinction is that in this second plan the corners of the room are cut off, whereby not only is the somewhat objectionable sharpness of the angles, occasioned in the other instance by the curved ends being brought up to the side walls, avoided, but the proportion which the end elevation bears to the entire breadth of the apartment is also altered. Besides which, four niches, placed diagonally on the plan, are thus obtained, where they would seem to No. 48.—Vol. IV.—September, 1841. come in with great propriety—conspicuously, but not obtrusively; on the contrary, where they are in some measure required in order to fill up, and give importance to those spaces: For the last assigned reason, niches are likewise introduced into the entrance recess A. Should it be made an objection that in consequence of its forming two intersecting curves in its plan, the part A would either occasion much space to be lost, or render it difficult to connect this apartment with an adjoining one, it may be got over by converting the cm ved wall in which the door is placed into a flat one. Su
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