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Title: Architect and engineer
Year: 1905 (1900s)
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Subjects: Architecture Architecture Architecture Building
Publisher: San Francisco : Architect and Engineer, Inc
Contributing Library: San Francisco Public Library
Digitizing Sponsor: San Francisco Public Library

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s attained by theextension of each window bay to a pointactually outside the building line. Since thebays extend from the outer corners of thesupporting columns so as to take in the jambusually left on the outside, the wall thick-ness between the columns is the thicknessof the casement sash—a little more than one April, \^M) ARCHITECT AND ENGINEER. 45 inch. This appears on the plan with oddsimplicity as a mere line! This line becomesstill more interesting at the six verticaledges of the building which have no solidcorners at all. The writer doubts whether any such ex-ample was ever carried out so completelvand so effectivelv in anv other building anv- column and not much over a quarter of theload oi the ne.xt inside diagonal column. Itis one of the curious traditions of architec-tural practice that in designing a rectangu-lar building the corner piers are not di-minished as they should logically be, butactually augmented. Undoubtedly if wehave a solid corner at all, this arrangement
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TYPICAL ELF.V.VTOR LOBBY, VOVK ¥\fV\ M riEK, S.\N FR.A.NCISCOJ. R. Miller and T. L. Pflueger, Architects where before. It is probably unique. Theeffect outside is startling; on the inside itis delightful. The panorama from each bayand there are six of them, embraces morethan half of the entire horizon. Yet fromthe strictly structural point of view whatcould possibly be more logical, more scien-tific? For, believe it or not, on any floorgrid of square panels the corner columncarries onlv half the load of the next side looks better and its validity may be con-fused in the average mind with the thrustdemand of an arcaded system. Furthermore,anv architect can recall dozens of caseswhere a colonnaded facade is purposelyflanked on each corner by a whole bay ofmore solid construction for no other pur-pose than to give a sense of strength to thewhole composition. Moreover it is usual todiminish the openings and so enlarge the 46 AUCHITEICT AND ENGINEER, April, 1930

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