life of the community, such problems will become more frequent.
The opportunity of beginning with so many virgin acres upon which with majestic axes a brilliant marble structure is deftly centered, will in the end be among the lesser possibilities in museum design. The architect now faces the task of making out of humble material, in a crowded part of a busy city, an attractive structure equipped for work and calculated to extend its services for twelve hours out of twenty-four and on every day of the year. The day of “gazing galleries” is past. In sober fact the architect is bound, sooner or later, to find his solution in a tall building or in the combination of several purposes in one building, as is now so often the case, as of church and office building, of bank and office building, of theatre and office building. And, finally he may face, in addition to such conditions, the exigencies of a site that stately museum buildings would normally eschew as unworthy, such as a side hill, an L-shaped plot with frontage on two streets and enclosing an alien structure on the corner, or perhaps a narrow angle at the meeting of noisy streets. What delightful tests these will
ENTRANCE HALL, FIREPLACE END AND DOORWAY TO EXHIBITION ROOM
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