. A practical treatise on natural and artificial concrete; its varieties and constructive adaptations . m-plished through the agency of the Lascelles system ofconstruction. A group of ten workmens cottages havebeen in the course of building during the past winter(between October and April), and no interruption has arisenin the continuous progress of erection, notwithstanding theunusual severity of a more than ordinarily protracted seasonof storm and frost. These cottages are built near London(Greenhithe), and can be readily examined. The above description of the salient constructive advan-tage
. A practical treatise on natural and artificial concrete; its varieties and constructive adaptations . m-plished through the agency of the Lascelles system ofconstruction. A group of ten workmens cottages havebeen in the course of building during the past winter(between October and April), and no interruption has arisenin the continuous progress of erection, notwithstanding theunusual severity of a more than ordinarily protracted seasonof storm and frost. These cottages are built near London(Greenhithe), and can be readily examined. The above description of the salient constructive advan-tages illustrates the usefulness of the system for ordinaryand moderate purposes. But in the ornamental and advanceddecorative direction, we have had during the recent ParisExhibition an opportunity of proving conclusively its greatadaptability in the production of advanced architecturaldesign. In a prominent position in the Street of Nations,Mr. Lascelles erected a building represented by Fig. 43, thedesign of which was furnished by K. Norman Shaw, CONSTRUCTIVE CONCRETE APPLICATIONS. 263 Fig. Queen Anne House, Street of Nations, Paris Exhibition, 1878. 264 A PRACTICAL TREATISE ON CONCRETE. The whole of the parts of the structure were fashioned andprepared in London, shipped from thence, and erected byforeign workmen, under the superintendence of Mr. Lascellesforeman, in the park or grounds of the Paris design is after the purest time of the Queen Anneperiod, and the happy success both of design and construc-tion is a subject for congratulation. The whole building was faced with thin tiles of a pleasingred colour, permanent in character and made of the bestPortland cement, with which was used metallic oxidesground and carefully mixed. These tiles are of two sizes,viz. 4J inches by 2| inches, and 9 inches by 2| inches,being cemented to the concrete slab, 3 feet by 2 feet, whichhad been previously fastened to the wooden framework byscrews. Owing to the colour
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