. Construction : a journal for the architectural engineering and contracting interests of Canada . palace to Mnesiclessuperb edifice at Athens,shows a desire to obtain adignified first impression anda portal worthy of the pre-cincts to which it gives ac-cess. Public gymnasia andstadia were brought moreinto architectural relationwith the city—a contrast toour method of dealing withrecreation grounds, thoughnow, as then, physical exer-cise plays an important partin life. The Agora, placedin relation to the two maincross streets of the town, shows an appreciation of the 2. importance of
. Construction : a journal for the architectural engineering and contracting interests of Canada . palace to Mnesiclessuperb edifice at Athens,shows a desire to obtain adignified first impression anda portal worthy of the pre-cincts to which it gives ac-cess. Public gymnasia andstadia were brought moreinto architectural relationwith the city—a contrast toour method of dealing withrecreation grounds, thoughnow, as then, physical exer-cise plays an important partin life. The Agora, placedin relation to the two maincross streets of the town, shows an appreciation of the 2. importance of the vista, and the grouping of their public buildings round itshows the value attached to the formation of someclimax in their design, an effect, however, more mag-nificently obtained by the placing of the great domi-nating temples on an eminence, giving to the wholecomposition a sense of unity extending to the smallesthouses, however distant and irregularly scatteredabout. Though symmetry was not always strivenfor, a general sense of balance is felt and an inter-esting sky-line (b) the study of Roman Civic Art it is the greatscale and the big way of approaching problems whichstrike one most forcibly. Possessed of more powerand fewer restrictions than the Greeks, they did nothesitate to cut away the side of a hill or to fill in avalley to suit their magnificent plans. Regular andsymmetrical schemes were adopted, the chess-boardsystem being more or less customary—the two mainstreets of the town set at right angles to one anotherregulating the lay-out of the remainder of the cityplan; but effective planning is limitedmore or less to the public buildings andmarkets, the residential parts being un-resolved. The value, then, of Roman study tous must centre chiefly on the Fora andtheir surroundings. Placed usually atthe intersection of the two chief streets,they occupy central positions, but,hidden within the angles formed by thetwo ways, they partake more
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