Pacific service magazine . ess of the company within the limits of thewestern metropolis is transacted. Pacific Service Magazine 147 ^Architectural Treatment of the building By JOHN BAKEWELL, of Bakewell & Brown, Architects. While it is distinctivelyAmerican in its construc-tion, the high office build-ing of today must have asits structural basis sometraditional architecturalstyle, unless the architectis to cast aside his heritageand rashly attempt towork out an entirely newdesign. A casual study ofthe great architecture ofthe world will show thatno great building has everbeen evolved which di


Pacific service magazine . ess of the company within the limits of thewestern metropolis is transacted. Pacific Service Magazine 147 ^Architectural Treatment of the building By JOHN BAKEWELL, of Bakewell & Brown, Architects. While it is distinctivelyAmerican in its construc-tion, the high office build-ing of today must have asits structural basis sometraditional architecturalstyle, unless the architectis to cast aside his heritageand rashly attempt towork out an entirely newdesign. A casual study ofthe great architecture ofthe world will show thatno great building has everbeen evolved which didnot grow out of what pre-ceded. New problems,new structural inventions,new materials and newideas mould and changethe architectural formsand motives, even changethe entire spirit and effect of archi-tecture, but always in a constructive andprogressive manner, using and developingthe forms and traditions that the preced-ing ages have produced. At the same time, every building ofmerit has its own individuality, which is.


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