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Actually, there is no way in which an architect who designs country houses can sign his work with his style. Every patron has some notion of his own, every site is different. Yet Delano and Aldrich, now that they are to their branch of the profession what Cram and Ferguson or McKim, Mead and White are to theirs, are generally allowed a fairly free hand in their designs. They prefer to arrange, not the house alone, but the grounds and gardens which go with...
...Minister of Railways Sun Fo announced last week that contracts have been signed, providing for the remodeling and enlargement of Nanking and the harbor of Canton by two New Yorkers, an architect and an engineer...
...Architect Henry Killam Murphy is famed for his many notable successes in blending Occidental materials into Chinese style. He designed the building of Yenching College, Peiping, Yale-in-China, Changsha, and Gingling College, Nanking. He will now receive carte blanche to transform Nanking into a modern, imposing and yet Chinese capital, may spend...
...horror-stricken Architect Edouard Moravicz all this seemed too much to bear. Fleeing from the awful sight and sounds he sought a pistol, found Death...
Dramatic was the arrest of the scalawag building contractor who was believed, last week, to be more responsible than the suicided architect for the tragedy. When policemen dragged the contractor forth, more dead than alive, they had little trouble in extracting a confession. Apparently he had got behind his building schedule, had endeavored to speed up construction by pouring in cement before...