. The Architect & engineer of California and the Pacific Coast . n Francisco, with the opportunity which weha\e here? Who, having seen Amboise, and Chinon, and )ut is pained by the vast unlovely bulk of the buildings which are robbingour liills of their native beauty and putting nothing of luan-niade beauty totake its place? To such it must be evident that we have lost and are losingan asset of beauty and of civic distinction such as few cities possess, itseems to nie that altogether too mucii talk is spent upon our natural advan-tages and too littleupon what we are do-ing and
. The Architect & engineer of California and the Pacific Coast . n Francisco, with the opportunity which weha\e here? Who, having seen Amboise, and Chinon, and )ut is pained by the vast unlovely bulk of the buildings which are robbingour liills of their native beauty and putting nothing of luan-niade beauty totake its place? To such it must be evident that we have lost and are losingan asset of beauty and of civic distinction such as few cities possess, itseems to nie that altogether too mucii talk is spent upon our natural advan-tages and too littleupon what we are do-ing and are going todo to preserve and en-hance them. An un-lovely town on a fea-tureless srte is unfor-tunate, but upon sucha site as San Fran-ciscos it is a crime—it is worse than acrime ; it is a there no lessonthat we may learnfrom such noble ex-amples as Durham ; ,, ,., •The illuslralions shown are taken from .\Ir. Simpsons collLtlion o£ European photofrom special views of San Francisco buildings. tOf Wood & Simpson, Architects, San 64 The Architect and Engineer
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