Monumental classic architecture in Great Britain and Ireland during the eighteenth & nineteenth centuries (1914)
Richardson, A. E. (Albert Edward), Sir, 1880-1964 · London, B. T. Batsford, ltd.; New York, C. Scribner's sons · leaf 167
ts the best of his interior designs. H is monumental compositions are readily recognised by the simplicity of their massing, as well as by the strict regard for the academic use of the order. Playfair realised the necessity ol introducing sub -motifs as foils to the comparative nakedness of the… … bottom of a bill. That he FIG. 90. THE MERCHANTS’ HOUSE AND COURTS, GLASGOW, 1844 Clarke and Bell , Architecti successfully accomplished this structure is a tribute to his painstaking genius, although one can hardly imagine why he introduced a pseudo-Gothic parapet to finish a Classic tower. He…
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