. Factory and industrial management . added that the de-tails of a glass painting designed for Cathedral, or any other Italianchurch, should be of Italian character;or that the details of a glass paintingdesigned for Westminster Abbey, or theTemple Church, should be in conformitywith the details of those buildings respect-ively, and should in all other points be asadvanced in point of art and general ex-cellence as the architecture and sculptureare. The author thinks that the harmony be-tween Gothic architecture and coevalGothic picture glass painting is not ascomplete as is generally
. Factory and industrial management . added that the de-tails of a glass painting designed for Cathedral, or any other Italianchurch, should be of Italian character;or that the details of a glass paintingdesigned for Westminster Abbey, or theTemple Church, should be in conformitywith the details of those buildings respect-ively, and should in all other points be asadvanced in point of art and general ex-cellence as the architecture and sculptureare. The author thinks that the harmony be-tween Gothic architecture and coevalGothic picture glass painting is not ascomplete as is generally supposed, al-though Gothic pattern glass painting har-monizes completely in the majority ofcases. 124 REVIEW OF THE ENGINEERING PRESS The Chicago Tower. Not content with being the homesteadof tall building, Chicago, like ancientBabel, wishes to have the highest artificialstructure on the face of the earth. Noth-ing less than 1,115 f^^^ in height will sat-isfy the passion of the Chicago people forlooking down upon the inhabitants of. other cities. A tower of the height namedis not only projected, but. The ElectricalEngmeer says, is in actual course of ex-ploitation. Its cost is to be $800,000, andin external appearance it will be as shownin the engraving, reproduced from thejournal named. If carried out as planned,this tower will be a great monument of architectural and engineering construction The base will occupy a plot 326 feetsquare. From the four corner supports,each of which is 50 feet square, will risearches 200 feet across, and the same inheight. These arches will support thefirst landing, which will have 90,000 squarefeet of flooring, where 22,000 persons canbe accommodated at one time. There isa distance of 225 feet from the ground tothis first landing. At a height of 450 feet there is to bea platform 150 feet square. Six hundredand seventy-five feet above the ground isthe third landing, far higher than anybuilding in Chicago. At an elevation of1,000 feet above the ea
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