In the Raymond system of concrete piling a shell or form is driven to a firm bearing, remains in the ground and is filled with carefully mixed Portland cement concrete, assuring a perfect pile in every instance.
Raymond concrete piles are tapering and have a supporting value their entire length.
No driving on the concrete.
Every pile a perfect monolith. A carefully prepared book of facts on concrete piling free on application.
Raymond Concrete Pile Co*
Gen l Offices 135 Adams St.
CHICAGO
The decision of the jury on the first part will be made known to all competitors not later than Saturday, March 10, 1906. To the five persons selected will be mailed, for receipt on Monday, March 12, 1906, the programme and regulations of the second part.
Work of the Second Part.—The subject of the second part will be “An Aquarium.” The several conditions of the problem and the kind and number of drawings required will be made known in the programme of the second part.
The preliminary studies are to be mailed to the undersigned under postmark of date not later than Saturday, March 17, marked with a nom de plume other than that used in the first part. The completed drawings are to be rolled, addressed to the undersigned, and delivered to the office of the Bursar in College Hall not later than 5 p. m. Saturday, March 31.
General Requirements.—Designs are not to be signed by their author, but are to bear a nom de plume, also to be written on a card with the author’s name and enclosed in an opaque sealed envelope, forwarded with the drawings.
Instead of the usual lettering of title, nom de plume, etc., upon the drawings, a printed label, furnished upon application to the undersigned, is to be mounted on each sheet (in both first and second parts of the competition), with blanks filled in by the competitor as indicated in its attached memorandum.
It is required that the design in both first and second parts of the competition be essentially the author’s own, both as to conception, detail and execution. No competi
. tor is to submit more than one design in either part of the competition and no design will be admitted to competition if delivered later than the time specified.
All former matriculates of the School of Architecture, whether eligible for the Fellowship or not,-are requested to send their addresses to the undersigned in order that printed information relative to the School may be sent to them.
Warren P. Laird,
Professor of Architecture. University of Pennsylvania, Feb. 19, 1906.
SOCIETY OF BEAUX-ARTS ARCHITECTS.
The competition for the .“Paris Prize” of the Society of Beaux-Arts Architects [gift of J. Pierpont Morgan, Esq.] is organized for the purpose of choosing a student to pursue his studies in the first class of the École des Beaux-Arts of Paris, according to the regulations adopted by the French Ministry of Public Instruction and Fine Arts. If the winner of the competition is unable to qualify according to these regulations before a jury appointed by the Society of Beaux-Arts Architects within six months after the judgment of the final drawings of the competition, then the prize may be allowed to lapse for the present year, if the committee so decides. The jury will examine the winner generally on the subjects referred to in the third paragraph of the regulations, which are mechanics, plane and spherical geometry, algebra, analytics, descriptive geometry, stereotomy, perspective, the theory of stresses and construction.
The winner of the prize shall receive $250
quarterly for two years and a half, dating from his departure for Europe, which shall not be later than seven months from the judgment of the final competition in design. He shall be expected to render at least eight projets in the first class of the École des BeauxArts, besides other work which the Society will later specify and shall spend at least two and a half years abroad.
All who enter the competition must be under 27 years of age on July 1, 1906.
The winner shall not, while receiving the stipend attached to the prize, seek paid employment in any capacity anywhere without special sanction of the committee.
There shall be two preliminary and one final competition.
Fifteen men shall be exempt from the first preliminary competition ; these shall be all who have been eligible for the final competition in a former Paris Prize contest, and as many others, drawn from the students of the Society, as shall be needed to make up the number, chosen according to their number of values obtained in Class A competition.
The first preliminary competition, consisting of a 12-hour esquisse-esquisse, is open to every American and will be held on Saturday, March 10, from 9 a. m. to 9 p. m., in
New York—At the Architectural Department, Havermeyer Hall, Columbia LTniversity.
St. Louis—Apply for information to Professors Mann or Spiering, Washington University.
Continued on page vii.
Raymond concrete piles are tapering and have a supporting value their entire length.
No driving on the concrete.
Every pile a perfect monolith. A carefully prepared book of facts on concrete piling free on application.
Raymond Concrete Pile Co*
Gen l Offices 135 Adams St.
CHICAGO
The decision of the jury on the first part will be made known to all competitors not later than Saturday, March 10, 1906. To the five persons selected will be mailed, for receipt on Monday, March 12, 1906, the programme and regulations of the second part.
Work of the Second Part.—The subject of the second part will be “An Aquarium.” The several conditions of the problem and the kind and number of drawings required will be made known in the programme of the second part.
The preliminary studies are to be mailed to the undersigned under postmark of date not later than Saturday, March 17, marked with a nom de plume other than that used in the first part. The completed drawings are to be rolled, addressed to the undersigned, and delivered to the office of the Bursar in College Hall not later than 5 p. m. Saturday, March 31.
General Requirements.—Designs are not to be signed by their author, but are to bear a nom de plume, also to be written on a card with the author’s name and enclosed in an opaque sealed envelope, forwarded with the drawings.
Instead of the usual lettering of title, nom de plume, etc., upon the drawings, a printed label, furnished upon application to the undersigned, is to be mounted on each sheet (in both first and second parts of the competition), with blanks filled in by the competitor as indicated in its attached memorandum.
It is required that the design in both first and second parts of the competition be essentially the author’s own, both as to conception, detail and execution. No competi
. tor is to submit more than one design in either part of the competition and no design will be admitted to competition if delivered later than the time specified.
All former matriculates of the School of Architecture, whether eligible for the Fellowship or not,-are requested to send their addresses to the undersigned in order that printed information relative to the School may be sent to them.
Warren P. Laird,
Professor of Architecture. University of Pennsylvania, Feb. 19, 1906.
SOCIETY OF BEAUX-ARTS ARCHITECTS.
The competition for the .“Paris Prize” of the Society of Beaux-Arts Architects [gift of J. Pierpont Morgan, Esq.] is organized for the purpose of choosing a student to pursue his studies in the first class of the École des Beaux-Arts of Paris, according to the regulations adopted by the French Ministry of Public Instruction and Fine Arts. If the winner of the competition is unable to qualify according to these regulations before a jury appointed by the Society of Beaux-Arts Architects within six months after the judgment of the final drawings of the competition, then the prize may be allowed to lapse for the present year, if the committee so decides. The jury will examine the winner generally on the subjects referred to in the third paragraph of the regulations, which are mechanics, plane and spherical geometry, algebra, analytics, descriptive geometry, stereotomy, perspective, the theory of stresses and construction.
The winner of the prize shall receive $250
quarterly for two years and a half, dating from his departure for Europe, which shall not be later than seven months from the judgment of the final competition in design. He shall be expected to render at least eight projets in the first class of the École des BeauxArts, besides other work which the Society will later specify and shall spend at least two and a half years abroad.
All who enter the competition must be under 27 years of age on July 1, 1906.
The winner shall not, while receiving the stipend attached to the prize, seek paid employment in any capacity anywhere without special sanction of the committee.
There shall be two preliminary and one final competition.
Fifteen men shall be exempt from the first preliminary competition ; these shall be all who have been eligible for the final competition in a former Paris Prize contest, and as many others, drawn from the students of the Society, as shall be needed to make up the number, chosen according to their number of values obtained in Class A competition.
The first preliminary competition, consisting of a 12-hour esquisse-esquisse, is open to every American and will be held on Saturday, March 10, from 9 a. m. to 9 p. m., in
New York—At the Architectural Department, Havermeyer Hall, Columbia LTniversity.
St. Louis—Apply for information to Professors Mann or Spiering, Washington University.
Continued on page vii.