San Francisco, Calif. : Architect and Engineer Co · leaf 571
outh Sea Islander cuts but a sorry figurein a swallow tail coat,no matter how picturesque and admirable he may be in his native costume.So it is in architecture—a building designed for one material cannot be suc-cessfully executed in any other. A tile building should express the simplesolidity of… … This design was conceived, broadly, as a quadrangle in plan, with a solidwall at each end, terminating in a chimney top. These end walls and theexterior walls of the first story are of vitrified hollow tile, eight inches thick,with the cells extending horizontally. Vitrified tile of this pattern…
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