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Identifier: architecturalmag02lond (find matches)
Title: The Architectural magazine
Year: 1834 (1830s)
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Subjects: Architecture
Publisher: London : Longman, Rees, Orme, Brown, Green, and Longman
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to have been thecupola and lantern ! A description of this approved designmay be seen in the New York Mirror, to which I refer yourreaders. By the arrangement of the desks on the plan (Jig. 228.), thegreater number of the columns are concealed to about 4 ft. fromtheir bases; and, this being the case, one can hardly conjecturetheir use at all; for an arched ceiling, with a cupola on the in-tersection, would not be incapable of a very pleasing effect,unless, indeed, the Parthenic exterior might have spoiled it byits associations in the mind before entering. But what wouldbe said, if double rows of columns were placed between the sidesof the nave, choir, and transepts of St. Pauls, London, withtheir entablatures running longitudinally and transversely fromeach column, and forming a species of network, with the spacebetween the top of the cornice and the apex of the arch, havingthe appearance of a naked floor, when looking up through it:* M M 3 r,o. 30 Plan, ElcT,atio7i, Scclion, Sj-c,228
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of the Custom-IIoiisc, New York. 531 Notwithstanding the length of the foregoing remarks, I have not 1 ■•11 pointed out one half of the absurdities of this original design ; for, like Hogarths perspective frontispiece, new ones are dis-covered every time I look at it. After the drawings had been selected from among the othercompetition plans, and adopted, they were sent from Washingtonto three gentlemen in New York, who were appointed commis-sioners for the erection of the building (one of whom was thecollector of the Custom-House). On these gentlemen examiningthe drawings minutely, as to the accommodation afforded, theyfound that it was quite inadequate to the purpose intended ;and even this was not discovered until the foundations of theexternal walls were laid. It therefore became necessary to havethe drawings revised, and I was applied to for this purpose.What I have been able to make of the building will be seen bycomparing my plan (j%. 222.) with the original plan (fg. 228.)

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