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Description: Identifier: architectenginee11935sanf (find matches) Title: Architect and engineer Year: 1905 (1900s) Authors: Subjects: Architecture Architecture Architecture Building Publisher: San Francisco : Architect and Engineer, Inc Contributing Library: San Francisco Public Library Digitizing Sponsor: San Francisco Public Library View Book Page: Book Viewer About This Book: Catalog Entry View All Images: All Images From Book Click here to view book online to see this illustration in context in a browseable online version of this book. Text Appearing Before Image: to bush hammer ortool the surface to effect an harmoniouscomposition. The cost of this treatment is more thanthat of plain structural concrete, of course,since attention must be paid, not onlyto workability and ultimate strength, butcolor and texture must also be carefullyconsidered. A slight variation in mix, maycause a change in color. Aggregates fromdifferent sources will show differences intexture, since, as mentioned before, notonly the surface of the aggregate is ex-posed, but each bit of stone is laid open toexpose its interior coloring. A comparison of its cost with that ofstone, or even of cast stone, is far more fav-orable, although this is not in any sense animitation, but rather a modern substitute forstone. It has the advantage that it is notnecessary to cast concrete in blocks or seg-ments, then go to the additional labor andexpense of laying, centering, plombing, andpointing. When the forms are built, this THE ARCHITECT AND ENGINEER ^ 27 ^ DECEMBER, NINETEEN THIRTY-FOUR Text Appearing After Image: Henry Dewell and T. Ronneberg, Engineers Structural Steel by Judson Pacific Company PROGRESS PICTURE, GRACE CATHEDRAL, SAN FRANCISCOLEWIS P. HOBART, ARCHITECT work is all eliminated and the pouring of sive construction, will find himself well re- the concrete completes the job. warded by a personal visit to the Cathe- It is not easy to adequately picture this dral. The building is a monument to the structure in words. One who would care creative genius of Mr. Hobart. the archi- to see a most impressive example of mas- tect. THE ARCHITECT AND ENGINEER -^ 28 ^ DECEMBER, NINETEEN THIRTV-FOUR Grace Cathedral • San Francisco LEWIS P. HOBART, ArchitectDINWIDDIE CONSTRUCTION COMPANY, Builders The following firms have contributed to the successful completion of theCathedral: STRUCTURAL STEEL Judson-Pacific Company, 609 Mission Street, San Francisco REINFORCING STEEL Gunn-Carle Company, 20 Potrero Avenue, San Francisco Pacific Coast Steel Company, 20th and Illinois Streets, San Francisco CEM Note About Images Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these illustrations may not perfectly resemble the original work.
Title: Architect and engineer (1934) (14741552296)
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