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REVOLUTIONARY BUILDING

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The world is said to be threaten- dofinite ideals of perfection. The ed to-day, with a shortage of Roman buildings, on the other hand, timber. If so, here is the remedy were the work of unskilled men, and a universal ono, for almost perhaps soldiers in their winter every placo can provide the in- quarters, pouring the broken atone,gredients. The buildings of the MAY HERALD NEW CIVILISATION brick, sand, and cement into wooden future constructed in it will not be frames directed by engineers, and of the heavy monumental character afming more at magnificence than | bricks and stone. Imply. The now Professor C. II. Reilly writes in anything else.

architecture will be more akin to "John O' London's Weekly"

The discovery of Portland cement Gothle than to Classic, but with We all get our best ideas of the in the nineteenth century once again angular forma rather than curved civilisations of the past from the made, possible a strong concrete ones, for the moulds of the latter buildings they have left to 16. which would span from wall to wall ( are difficult to make. Still, From them we can judge not only │In vaults or from girder to girier, may be overcome In time, for the general standard of life, but But the nineteenth century was not recently in Chicago a great group the outlook and ambitions of the an age of great originality in build-of sculpture has been made in con- peoples. 'The ancient Egyptian ing methods, and except in the crete by using plaster moulds. view of the relative value of this Catholic Cathedral at Westminster, Perhaps it is safer to say that it Ife and the next la made clear to where the great domes are in con-will be a plastic architecture rather us at once directly we see the ever-crete, no great vaults were erected than a lithic one, a modelled rather loating way in which they built in solid mass concrete as the than a earved one. But this their tombs and their pyramids. Romana used. The method was modelling will not be the sort of We gather botter the grandeur of thing, the steel being so placed. In modelling one does in clay or wax, the Roman Empire from some the concrete that it would resist but rather the modelling one might mighty fragment of a concrete any pulling force. (which the con- do in wire, bending it to the re- vault for out in the desert than by crete from its nature could not do) quired shape and then covering the any description of Pliny or Vitru- and the concrete so placed as to take resulting figure with clothes. vius. Does the change, then, which any compressing force, which it fa

Gaunt Outlines. is coming over building methods well able to sustain. indicate a change in our civilian- Till this happened the steel

There is therefore going to be a tion? Will the new concrete strue- girders and uprights did all the certain gauntness about the new tures tell Macaulay's New Zealander | work, the concrete used being a

the ferro-concrete structures, as when he rediscovers them some- mere covering. After the invention, churches already built in Parts thing which we living in the wood however, the steel was reduced to show, but at the same time there cannot ses for the trees? I think thin rods sufficient to take the will be great airiness and light. they will, but let us first explain tension and placed in the post-The eye trained to the proportions what these changes are.

tion where the tension would of stone buildings will have to be

As the Romans Did.

come.

In this way the great retrained to the new ones this new The last fifty years might well be invention of the Portland Cement material implies and makes possi- Age came about, and was ble. To begin with, we', shall no called the Portland Cement Age, gradually given the name of ferre-doubt think the buildings ugly. In though that material was discover concrete. It meant, Indeed, a now the end we shall find them possess- ed more than one hundred years material which combined in itself ed. I fancy, of strange power rather ago by a Leeds engineer. Portland all the chief functions and possi- like that of some of the pictures of cement has done for us what Romanbilities of both concrete and steel. machinery in the Metropolis film. cement did for the Romans. It has Imagine a new kind of stone, but What is the change in our civilian- made possible a new ferm of con with the toughness of steel, and tion this will imply? struction. For the Romans, the

The most interesting examples of obviously

kind of arw NCW cement they made of lime and a

are It is this new architecture to be chitecture is called for. clayey substance, called pozzuolana, this architecture,

found In the volume called more prominent enabled them to vault over great

on the Continent so far than it is "Architectural Design in Concrete" halls as big as our cathedrals in with us, which may cause, and by T. P. Bennett, with photographs solid concrete, sometimes twenty probably will in the end, as great a by F. R. Yerbury, and published by feet thick. The remains of these revolution in building as did Roman Messrs. Ernest Benn, Ltd., at 308. vaults to-day are the most impres-concrete eighteen centuries ago. sive things in Rome. One, indeed, stands complete, the dome of the Pantheon-a dome of greater span than that of St. Paul's Cathedral, and of far greater thickness.

It was the quick-setting property of their cement which made it pos- vast vaults of loose sand, broken brick, and stone, all held together by cement, for that is all concrete is. When in the decline of the Empire the art of making this cement Was lost, these great

sible for the Romans to build these

Furniture in Cement?

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The main characteristics of this now architecture, which is arising wherever the new material is used for its special qualities and not in Imitation of a stone architecture, are the thinness of the supports and the length of the span possible from support to support. Ferro-concrete is really more like tough wood than stone. Already we lay a coating of it on our new roads and make our vaults, could no longer be built. larger drain-pipes of it. In bulid- For seven centuries men searched ings. great overhang of features is about to find a substitute for them, possible, such as balconies without apparent support. Indeed, most of as strong and fireproof as they

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