The Architect & engineer of California and the Pacific Coast . ster overthis. Canvas battening is not practical in your case, nor would layers oftinfoil arrest the dampness. California Stale Building Plans According to the architects. Messrs. IJliss & j-aville. working plans forthe new California State building to be erected in tiie .San Irancisco CivicCenter are practically completed and the State probably will call for bidsin from thirty to sixty days. It will take at least six months for delivery ofthe steel. The interest which the .State is receiving on the bonds shouldtake care oLthe adde
The Architect & engineer of California and the Pacific Coast . ster overthis. Canvas battening is not practical in your case, nor would layers oftinfoil arrest the dampness. California Stale Building Plans According to the architects. Messrs. IJliss & j-aville. working plans forthe new California State building to be erected in tiie .San Irancisco CivicCenter are practically completed and the State probably will call for bidsin from thirty to sixty days. It will take at least six months for delivery ofthe steel. The interest which the .State is receiving on the bonds shouldtake care oLthe added cost of materials, according to those in charge of thepreliminary work. Between Competitors in San Francisco Scene: Montgomery street. Enter, Architect, four feet four inciics high. Panama liat, blonde and points across the do you like my new building?Competitor strains his eyes in the direction building? I cannot see any building. All I can see is signsof a building. THE ARCHITECT AND 99. FOR MISS HEAD, BERKELEYIf. H. RatcHfl, Jr., Architect The Treatment of the Pergola IN OUR DAY a pergola seems to be regarded as a si>jn of artistic enlighten-ment. It is new, it is fashionable, it is even becoming obvious. Like suchthings, it is full of danger, the danger inherent in all similar formal affairs andin the machinery of formal gardens in i)articular. The chief trouble withAmericans in this connection is that they have gone into formal layouts bacU-wards. nf)t realizing tiiat such things are produced and made reasonable by cer-tain ordered conditions and a long devotion to the ritual of life, and that apartfrom such conditions the mere apjiaratus can make very fools of its proud pos-sessors. :\ formal garden is a test. It requires a certain amount of characterto live in one, and a ])ergola is in a sense a si>iritual thermometer which willaccurately try the savoir fairc of the man who builds it. No
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