The roofs, these wretched roofs, still persist, an inexcusable paradox. The basements are still damp and cluttered up, and the service mains of our towns are invariably buried under stonework like atrophied organs, although a logical approach to the problem, easily realized, would produce the proper solution.
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THE "LAMORICIÈRE" (CIE. TRANSATLANTIQUE)
To architects: a beauty of a more technical order. An æsthetic nearer to its real origins.
The "styles"—for he must indeed have something to furnish—come in as the great contribution of the architect. They intervene in the surface decoration of façades and of drawing-rooms; this is the degeneration of "style," the old clothes of a past age; it is a respectful and servile salute to the past: disquieting modesty! It is a lie; for in the "great
