San Francisco : Architect and Engineer, Inc · leaf 417
the use ofany historical style was deliberately tabooed. This did away with allbelt courses, cornices, ornaments, mouldings and projections of everykind whatsoever. In such vast facades, almost of the El Capital orderof magnitude, this rejection of subordinate parts and piecemeal divisionsmakes… … DETAIL OF SKYLINE, TELEPHONE BUILDING, SAN FRANCISCOJ. R. Miller and T. L. Pflueger, A. A. Cantin, Associated Architects comes reduced to a cluster of perpendicular piers ascending the fullaltitude of the building with naught but an occasional ripple of inter-ruption from pavement to parapet. This…
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