The Architectural Treatment of REINFORCED CONCRETE BUILDINGSSpecial Number:
Price, 75 Cents
The AMERICAN ARCHITECT
AND BUILDING NEWS
Vol. XCI.
MAY 4, 1907.
No. 1636
Summary:
Pages 161-162 Important Publishers’ Announcement — What Architects are doing and have done in Reinforced Concrete — The Artistic Expression of Concrete — The Automobile as a Promoter of Architecture and Architectural Fashions — The Appropriation for Boston’s Art Commission cut down. —Actual Designing within the Powers of Art Commissions.
The Architectural Problem of Concrete.................................................... 163 On the Artistic Expression of Reinforced Concrete: A Sym
posium ................................................. 163 The Idiomatic Use of Concrete.......................................................................... 172 Concrete Walll and Floors................................................................................... 174 Reinforced-concrete Construction............................................ 177 Concrete Surfaces...................................................................................................... 178 The Artistic Treatment of Concrete.............................................................. 180 Engineering Advice as to Reinforced Concrete.................................... 181 The Treatment of Concrete Surfaces........................................................... 183 The Defects and Virtues of Reinforced Concrete............................... 184 The Literature of Reinforced Concrete........................................................................................................................... 185 A Book on the San Francisco Disaster ..................................................... 187 Plates:
The Automobile Club of America, West 54th Street, New York: Eight Plates — Vaccine Laboratory and Stable for New York City Board of Health, Westchester, N. Y.: Four Plates — Administration Building of the George N. Pierce Co., Buffalo, N. Y.: Six Plates — Citizens’ Bank Building, Los Angeles, Cal.: Two Plates — Building of the Eastman Kodak Co., West 23rd Street, New York, N. Y.: Three Plates — House at Port Antonio, Jamaica, W. I. — Holy Trinity Church, Havana, Cuba, W. I.: Six Plates — Merchants’ National Bank, Newark, N. J.: Two Plates — Chateau des Beaux- Arts, Huntington, Long Island, N. Y.: Eight Plates — House of P. A. Rockefeller, Greenwich, Conn.: Three Plates — Episcopal Cathedral, Manila, P. I.: Four Plates — Episcopal Parish-house, Manila, P. I. — Herbivora Building in the Cincinnati Zoological Garden — House of D. Bacon, Esq., Ardslev-on-the-Hudson, N. Y. — House of R. Anderson, Esq., Cincinnati, O. — House of A. Kahn, Architect, Detroit, Mich. — U. S. Grant Hotel, San Diego, Cal. — Santa Fe Freight Depot, Los Angeles, and the Union Building, San Diego, Cal.
Notes and Clippings.
Societies, Personal Mention, etc. FLATIRON BUILDING
NEW YORK
Entered as second class matter November 18, 1904, at the Post Office at New York, N. Y., under the Act of Congress, March 8, 1879. Alphabetical List of Advertisements, page XLII.
Classified Directory, page XLIV
Price, 75 Cents
The AMERICAN ARCHITECT
AND BUILDING NEWS
Vol. XCI.
MAY 4, 1907.
No. 1636
Summary:
Pages 161-162 Important Publishers’ Announcement — What Architects are doing and have done in Reinforced Concrete — The Artistic Expression of Concrete — The Automobile as a Promoter of Architecture and Architectural Fashions — The Appropriation for Boston’s Art Commission cut down. —Actual Designing within the Powers of Art Commissions.
The Architectural Problem of Concrete.................................................... 163 On the Artistic Expression of Reinforced Concrete: A Sym
posium ................................................. 163 The Idiomatic Use of Concrete.......................................................................... 172 Concrete Walll and Floors................................................................................... 174 Reinforced-concrete Construction............................................ 177 Concrete Surfaces...................................................................................................... 178 The Artistic Treatment of Concrete.............................................................. 180 Engineering Advice as to Reinforced Concrete.................................... 181 The Treatment of Concrete Surfaces........................................................... 183 The Defects and Virtues of Reinforced Concrete............................... 184 The Literature of Reinforced Concrete........................................................................................................................... 185 A Book on the San Francisco Disaster ..................................................... 187 Plates:
The Automobile Club of America, West 54th Street, New York: Eight Plates — Vaccine Laboratory and Stable for New York City Board of Health, Westchester, N. Y.: Four Plates — Administration Building of the George N. Pierce Co., Buffalo, N. Y.: Six Plates — Citizens’ Bank Building, Los Angeles, Cal.: Two Plates — Building of the Eastman Kodak Co., West 23rd Street, New York, N. Y.: Three Plates — House at Port Antonio, Jamaica, W. I. — Holy Trinity Church, Havana, Cuba, W. I.: Six Plates — Merchants’ National Bank, Newark, N. J.: Two Plates — Chateau des Beaux- Arts, Huntington, Long Island, N. Y.: Eight Plates — House of P. A. Rockefeller, Greenwich, Conn.: Three Plates — Episcopal Cathedral, Manila, P. I.: Four Plates — Episcopal Parish-house, Manila, P. I. — Herbivora Building in the Cincinnati Zoological Garden — House of D. Bacon, Esq., Ardslev-on-the-Hudson, N. Y. — House of R. Anderson, Esq., Cincinnati, O. — House of A. Kahn, Architect, Detroit, Mich. — U. S. Grant Hotel, San Diego, Cal. — Santa Fe Freight Depot, Los Angeles, and the Union Building, San Diego, Cal.
Notes and Clippings.
Societies, Personal Mention, etc. FLATIRON BUILDING
NEW YORK
Entered as second class matter November 18, 1904, at the Post Office at New York, N. Y., under the Act of Congress, March 8, 1879. Alphabetical List of Advertisements, page XLII.
Classified Directory, page XLIV