The Architect & engineer of California and the Pacific Coast (1905)
San Francisco, Calif. : Architect and Engineer Co · leaf 418
ub-strata of clay, says Building Prog-ress, furnishes the most interesting study of the movement of buildings, andthe greatest number and variety of examples. All of the early sky-scrapers ofthat city were carried on floating foundations or on piles driven deep into theclay. These buildings without… … UNION OIL BUILDING LOS ANGELESParkinson & Bergstrom, Architects jacks and periodically levelled up as settlements occur, then, after all subsidencehas taken place, and the buildings have finally come to rest, the jacks areremoved and the foundation walls filled in with masonry. That is one of…
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