The Architect & engineer of California and the Pacific Coast (1905)
San Francisco, Calif. : Architect and Engineer Co · leaf 261
nseof proportion, l^alance, and exquisite workmanship. From the entrance tothe Cathedral the building looked like a colossal reliquary, the masterpieceof a goldsmith, worthy of standing on some giant altar. For the artistand the scholar it was without peer as an e.xquisite expression of theFlemish… … FIG. .\ THE TOirx HALL OF LOUVAIX.OTHERWISE KNOWS AS THE HOTEL DE VILLE 96 The Avchitcct and Engineer beginning of the ele\enth century. Simple in its original construction, itwas amplified and elaborated—practicr.lly rebuilt—some years before theHotel de Ville, about 1430. The usual agglomeration…
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