Hamlin, A. D. F. (Alfred Dwight Foster), 1855-1926 · New York [etc.] Longmans, Green, and co. · leaf 429
(Fig. 224) ; themore recent among them construct-ed with a framework of iron or steelcolumns and beams, the visible wallsbeing a mere filling-in. To rendera building of twenty stories attrac-tive to the eye, especially when builton an irregular site, is a difficultproblem, of which a wholly… … FIG. 224.—TIMES BUILDING,NEW YORK. ARCHITECTURE IX THE UNITED STATES. 397 marked basement or pedestal and a somewhat ornate crown-ing portion or capital, the intervening stories serving as adie or shaft and being treated with comparative simplicity.The difficulties of scale and of handling one…
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