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Title: The Architect & engineer of California and the Pacific Coast
Year: 1905 (1900s)
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Subjects: Architecture Architecture Architecture Building
Publisher: San Francisco, Calif. : Architect and Engineer Co
Contributing Library: San Francisco Public Library
Digitizing Sponsor: San Francisco Public Library

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Chilteaii Asay-lc-Ridc ginning to be recognized as a business asset of cities, is it good business to letthe natural attraction of our varied and extensive skyline be buried under theawkward bulk of monstrosities whose only excuse is revenue ? Are we so enslavedto the production of revenue that we may not enjoy beauty or create it? Or is The .Irchitcct mui liiii^iucrr 65
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Silhouelie of Tom, l)eaiity so fatal tu revenueiliat tlie two may not existIljetlier? Just now weare much cnf^rossed in theiliscussion of luiropcanmilitarism, of whether tiiestate exists for the jieopleor the ))eo))le for tlie state.1-et us turn for the mo-ment to our own case andquestion whetiier businessexists to serve the people,or the people to servebusiness. Let no one imasjine. however, that anythinf;^ im))ractical or extravajjantis proposed—indeed, we already have many exami)les which actually areeffecting the needed embellishment of the citys skyline. The Ierry Toweris unquestionably of these, serving, as it does, to mitigate the sordid monot-ony of our water front. Further up town the Hobart l)uilding has done asimilar service for the central business section. Its strong and gracefulcontour and the varietyand interest of its ,forms are a positive de-light to the eye. Andin the civic center thenoble dome of the CityHall is conferring dis-tinction and interestupon a section o

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