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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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a solid con-crete slab or raft 3 feet 6 inches thick. The total height is 125 feet and theweight is 1,000 tons. The construction was carried on continuously, astory being poured at a time. The staircase well is 9 feet 2 inches in ex-ternal diameter and is supported by . .four corner columns with 8-inch wallsbetween them, with light and ventilationopenings at each story-. The stair isknown as a caracole, on account of thelikeness to a snail shell presented by avertical view, as shown in t)ne of thephotographs. With one exception it is the onlyhelical staircase in America having a hol-low center, the other one being an ancientstone staircase in the tower of the cathe-dral in the City of Mexico. The stairwaycontains 160 steps with /iX-inch rise each,and was built around a galvanized ironform in the shape of a pipe, while woodenforms were placed for the stairs. Mate-rial was prepared at a special rock crush-ing and sand plant located about onemile from the building, in a <lr\ ri\erbed.
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98 The Architect and Engineer Services of an Architect THE thinking public is awake to the vahie of the services which anarchitect is capable of rendering, and recognizes that his provincebears the same relation to the owner as that of a specialist in medicineor surgery to his patient. In countless ways the expert advice and sug-gestions of an experienced architect will be found to have substantialvalue, and his worth, in this respect, cannot be economically ignored byanyone who has determined to build, whether it be a bungalow or a greatcommercial or monumental project. When a location is in contemplation, or has been determined upon, thearchitect selected should be made acquainted with the owners ideas andconception of what the building should be, and its character and pur-poses. The exigencies of the site should then be studied, and the climate,outlook, grades, drainage and other essential factors carefulh consid-ered, as their influences make for the success or non-success of the

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