CHILDREN'S WADING BASIN, HUMBOLDT PARK, BUFFALO Physical culture is an element in providing for the well-being of urban dwellers that is being A LESSON IN PARK MAKING-ALONG THE BACK BAY FENS, BOSTON Most cities have natural surroundings possessing certain landscape phases that need only be The above plan will give London a cosmopolitan thoroughfare, opening the Mall into Charing Cross, with a circular space at one end and terminating at the other before a new square about 800 by 400 feet, directly in front of Buckingham Palace. It is divided into three highways, the central one to be known as Processional Road, and two spaces are reserved for statuary, etc.. to illustrate the Eastern and Western dominions of her late Majesty. The idea is grand, and with St. James' Park and Lake a promising opportunity is offered to do something worthy of the "queenliest of women, the most womanly of queens." ASTON WEBB, ARCHITECT ACCEPTED DESIGN FOR THE VICTORIA MEMORIAL Without unity, large without breadth, and utterly lacking in majesty. Assuming that a barrier was necessary back of the monument, a grille treatment might have been used, and thus the dignity of a great surface would have been preserved, and the palace could then have taken its proper place in the composition. In Rome and Paris, and at the Pan-American, flat surfaces have been treated with skill, and in many public squares well-focussed monuments definitely record history and illustrate a high state of city-making. Here the architect shows his uncertainty by submitting a different treatment of the same units in opposite views, and has strung a collection of odds and ends together which do not invite prolonged contemplation. Our transatlantic cousins might invite some American vampire construction companies-those that revise designs and supply detail-drawings as well as labor and materials-to bid on the execution of the work to much advantage. |