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example of street architecture, and it may be hoped that when the new buildings on each side of the bank come to be erected they will conform to the style of the latter and will take cognisance of its lines, of its cornice and basement. The detail is here skilfully managed, the rusticated ground-floor storey well expressing the solidity appropriate to a bank building, while the plain ashlar facade above provides an area of wall surface which sufficiently dominates over the window openings. The interior is an accomplished essay in the Classic manner, and while being conventional in the best sense of the word, this tall and well-lit chamber admirably expresses modern standards in bank accommodation.
New Toffee Factory at Hunnington
This new factory building (illustrated on pages 454 and 455) shows an attempt to provide a decorous exterior to a structure devoted to the
purposes of modern industry. The architect, Mr. S. N. Cooke, has, however, been content to make his effects by the use of time-honoured motifs, and it must be confessed that he has created a meritorious design. The long façade, with its central feature marked by a Roman Doric portico distyle in antis, is in its main proportions a pleasing composition. It is a tribute to the Classic Order that, used with restraint, and on a sufficiently big scale, it never fails to produce an impression of solid dignity. The Classic Order is. so safe that designers may be excused if they fall back upon it again and again, and it is especially useful for magnifying a doorway, for symbolising that a comparatively small entrance is in reality the means of access, not merely to the groundfloor storey, but to a whole building. It is immediately obvious how in Mr. Cooke’s design the portico with the shaded apertures between the columns enhances the importance of the doorway, and by emphasising a vertical dimension which extends over both storeys, not only helps to unify these latter, but gives a new scale to the building. Yet in this case, while the THE NATIONAL PROVINCIAL BANK, HALIFAX: INTERIOR VIEW OF BANKING HALL.
F. C. R. Palmer, F. R. I. B. A., Architect.
[Photo: Lewis & Randall, Ltd.
example of street architecture, and it may be hoped that when the new buildings on each side of the bank come to be erected they will conform to the style of the latter and will take cognisance of its lines, of its cornice and basement. The detail is here skilfully managed, the rusticated ground-floor storey well expressing the solidity appropriate to a bank building, while the plain ashlar facade above provides an area of wall surface which sufficiently dominates over the window openings. The interior is an accomplished essay in the Classic manner, and while being conventional in the best sense of the word, this tall and well-lit chamber admirably expresses modern standards in bank accommodation.
New Toffee Factory at Hunnington
This new factory building (illustrated on pages 454 and 455) shows an attempt to provide a decorous exterior to a structure devoted to the
purposes of modern industry. The architect, Mr. S. N. Cooke, has, however, been content to make his effects by the use of time-honoured motifs, and it must be confessed that he has created a meritorious design. The long façade, with its central feature marked by a Roman Doric portico distyle in antis, is in its main proportions a pleasing composition. It is a tribute to the Classic Order that, used with restraint, and on a sufficiently big scale, it never fails to produce an impression of solid dignity. The Classic Order is. so safe that designers may be excused if they fall back upon it again and again, and it is especially useful for magnifying a doorway, for symbolising that a comparatively small entrance is in reality the means of access, not merely to the groundfloor storey, but to a whole building. It is immediately obvious how in Mr. Cooke’s design the portico with the shaded apertures between the columns enhances the importance of the doorway, and by emphasising a vertical dimension which extends over both storeys, not only helps to unify these latter, but gives a new scale to the building. Yet in this case, while the THE NATIONAL PROVINCIAL BANK, HALIFAX: INTERIOR VIEW OF BANKING HALL.
F. C. R. Palmer, F. R. I. B. A., Architect.
[Photo: Lewis & Randall, Ltd.