San Francisco, Calif. : Architect and Engineer Co · leaf 336
e high side on steep streets gives an extra height of fifteenor twenty feet when the site is of large area. In such cases the heightallowed for a wooden building is altogether too high It would be a much better proposition if the law read that a framebuilding at no point of its bulk should be over… … Shreve &• Co. s jiJJi,(M lemporaty liutUiin^HouKhton Saxvyer, Architect ■ Having now considered both horizontal and vertical limits, we willtake up: ^ PARTICULAR FEATURES OF BUILDINGS The particular features of buildings which cause most deaths fromearthquakes are chimneys, gable walls and…
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