The Architect & engineer of California and the Pacific Coast (1905)
San Francisco, Calif. : Architect and Engineer Co · leaf 269
ack, red, tsin (which is a neutral tint andstands for the color of life, the color of olives, the color of bamboo-skins, the deeper color of the rocks, etc.), white and yellow. Viewed from the city wall, the first impression of any Chinese city isdecidedly monotonous, the result of the predominance… … A GOOD EXAMPLE OF THE CHINESE PAGODA The large majority of Chinese buildings are furnished with a massiveroof with turned-up edges resting on short columns, and this feature issupposed to be a survival from the days of the tent-dwellers, who usedto hang the angles of their canvas partitions on…
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