. Construction : a journal for the architectural engineering and contracting interests of Canada . ten a disfigurement. The clustering ofthe town around some great towering church orcathedral, a dominating mass, like the Acropolis atAthens, gives a sense of unity to the whole; whilstcountless examples show that perfect geometricalregularity on paper is not always necessary, for littledeviations from the square are with difficulty mea-sured by the eye. From the market place we canlearn the value of the quiet, restful effects obtainedby a judicious arrangement of street entrances, givingan unbro
. Construction : a journal for the architectural engineering and contracting interests of Canada . ten a disfigurement. The clustering ofthe town around some great towering church orcathedral, a dominating mass, like the Acropolis atAthens, gives a sense of unity to the whole; whilstcountless examples show that perfect geometricalregularity on paper is not always necessary, for littledeviations from the square are with difficulty mea-sured by the eye. From the market place we canlearn the value of the quiet, restful effects obtainedby a judicious arrangement of street entrances, givingan unbroken frame of buildings, and with it thatsense of seclusion so suitable for a square in a busycommercial centre (an effect which may be obtained without meandering streets but in a rectilineal systemwith streets entering en bras de turbine). Suchan arcaded market place as that of Montpazierwould make, in principle, an excellent model for ourshopping centres; and we can learn something toofor our residential quarters, where, removed from thecentre of the city, the need of formality being less, a. in;. J). RADiAi. : i>i hi- a mhuKkn city BASKI) ox Till. III- judicious variation in the building lines of the streetgives a pleasing and welcome variety. (d) Renaissance. With the revival of Classic architecture in thefifteenth century in Italy, and with it earnest study of
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