. The Civil engineer and architect's journal, scientific and railway gazette. Architecture; Civil engineering; Science. If fi '"^--"^--mim^. BIELEFELD'S PAPIER MACHE WORKS. A no less singular than conspicuous object, the building lately erected in Wellington Street, North, can hardly fail to attract notice, vet at the same time is likely to puzzle the architectural critic. It has idreiidy been spoken of both in the Companion to the Almanac, and in an article on Loudon Shops and Gin Palaces, in the December Number of Eraser's Magazine ; nor do we see reason to dissent greatly from the
. The Civil engineer and architect's journal, scientific and railway gazette. Architecture; Civil engineering; Science. If fi '"^--"^--mim^. BIELEFELD'S PAPIER MACHE WORKS. A no less singular than conspicuous object, the building lately erected in Wellington Street, North, can hardly fail to attract notice, vet at the same time is likely to puzzle the architectural critic. It has idreiidy been spoken of both in the Companion to the Almanac, and in an article on Loudon Shops and Gin Palaces, in the December Number of Eraser's Magazine ; nor do we see reason to dissent greatly from the opinions there expressed. The defects of the design is that there is very little sort of agreement between the upper and the lower portion of the building, either as to style, cliaracter or material. While the latter is exceedingly plain and sober, the other is fanciful— not to say freakish in the dressings given to the fiist flour windows," which, uevertheless, du nut pussess the degree of richness, which would reconcile the eye to what, it be acknowledged, is outri' in man- ner, and which therefore required to be treated not with coldness, nor even sobriety. We do not object to an intermixture of stone and red brick ; on the contrary, we are of opinion that it might frequently be rendered pro- ductive of considerable effect; but then we should like to see the two materials combined throughout, from the gromid upwards, and not, as is here the case, have a building look as if begun and carried up to a ce. tain height in stone-work, and then completed in brick with only stone dressings. Again, the piers below look narrow and weak com- pared witli those between the windows of the first floor;—a fault that might have been obviated by arching the openings between them, and making the entresol windows in the heads of the arches. This would also have diminished the formality now occasioned by the numerous horizontal lines of those windows and openings, and unnecessari
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