. Construction : a journal for the architectural engineering and contracting interests of Canada . e reinforced con-crete play any important part in the facades. Incontradistinction to this the exterior treatment ofreinforced concrete is of great significance in manyengineering works, for example, bridges, water tow-ers, silos, chimnevs, retaining walls, etc. Many structures reveal the fact that both architectsand engineers are afraid to let the reinforced concreteappear visible without any foreign is, in fact, a tendency to cling to the old forms,though no reason can be de
. Construction : a journal for the architectural engineering and contracting interests of Canada . e reinforced con-crete play any important part in the facades. Incontradistinction to this the exterior treatment ofreinforced concrete is of great significance in manyengineering works, for example, bridges, water tow-ers, silos, chimnevs, retaining walls, etc. Many structures reveal the fact that both architectsand engineers are afraid to let the reinforced concreteappear visible without any foreign is, in fact, a tendency to cling to the old forms,though no reason can be deduced why it should beforced into an unnatural imitation of stone buildings,erected of single cut pieces, or of skeleton steel framebuildings covered with a material which has proper-ties entirely different from those of steel. It is, ofcourse, an irresistible temptation for a mercenary orunscrupulous architect to design the facade in theeasiest way possible by making monolithic reinforcedconcrete look like masonry through the medium ofjoint lines. The average observer might perhaps appreciate. 315 CONSTRUCTION the exterior of a structure in which the designer hasbeen successful in his efforts to veil the real characterof the material used, but it must be characterized asdeception and falsehood in art, considered from anaesthetical viewpoint. It should be mentioned that all over the world wefind architects and engineers who, to judge aftertheir works m reinforced concrete, possess sufficientknowledge of the artistic and structural propertiesof the material itself. Thev should allow this know-
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