Architectural Record, Volume 48Record and Guide, 1920 - Architecture |
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Page 421 - A house she hath ; it's made of such good fashion, The tenant ne'er shall pay for reparation ; Nor will her landlord ever raise her rent, Or turn her out of doors for nonpayment. From chimney money too this cell is free. To such a house who would not tenant be?
Page 259 - ... the sense of interrelation of parts, of unity of the whole. There is no absolute perfection, there is no communicable ideal; but much that is empiric, much that is confused and extravagant, will give way before the application of principles based on common sense and regulated by the laws of harmony and proportion.
Page 88 - And, in the constant view, the most objectionable phase of grandeur is that of extent; the worst phase of extent, that of distance. It is at war with the sentiment and with the sense of seclusion — the sentiment and sense which we seek to humour in
Page 430 - Housing conditions: program of architectural competition for the remodeling of a New York city tenement block under the auspices of the Joint legislative committee on housing and the Reconstruction commission of the state of New York, March 26, 1920.
Page 63 - In the typical five-story apartment, built in 50-foot units in the plan common to the Bronx and Manhattan, the normal arrangements are as follows : Number of rooms on a floor 36 Number of rooms in a house 176 Percentage of lot covered 70% Comparing the two plans, the result is as follows: Typical plan, percentage of lot covered 70% Thomas plan, percentage of lot covered 37%% The increase in lot area covered by typical plan compared to Thomas plan is 85 per cent.
Page 40 - I saw a room which seemed to have been painted with arabesques, and had a very pretty mosaic pavement with a Medusa's head in the centre.
Page 464 - Theories on the Arrangement of Museums of Art and their Application to the Museum of Fine Arts.
Page 196 - ... from one another by law, and by law its character must be prescribed through requiring that all the buildings that are erected within the bounds of each district conform to the standards established for the district. In a word, one may compare this new conception of a city with the older one by saying that older ideas picture the city as a kind of fungus, in which the street and block system are the cells : while the new ideal created by the Zoning Resolution conceives it to be a mechanism of...
Page 444 - Harlem begins, and bordered on the west by the Hudson River and on the east by Central Park. All the West Side areas in which I have lived are among the "improved" areas whose rebirth has been popularly attributed to the construction of Lincoln Center.
Page 180 - IMLAY, Robert. The proposed Victory Bridge over the Hudson between New York City and Weehawken.