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TOWARDS A NEW ARCHITECTURE

adding to human welfare and of lightening human toil. If these new conditions are set against the past, you have Revolution.

Business has modified its customs: it bears a heavy responsibility to-day: cost, time, solidity of the work. Engineers in numbers fill its offices, make their calculations, practise the laws of economy to an intensive degree, and seek to harmonize two opposed factors: cheapness and good work. Intelligence lies behind every initiative, bold innovations are demanded. The morality of industry has been transformed: big business is to-day a healthy and moral organism. If we set this new fact against the past, we have Revolution in method and in the scale of the adventure.

A HANGAR (FREYSSINET & LIMOUSIN)

Width 250 feet, height 150 feet, length over 900 feet. The Nave of Notre Dame is 40 feet wide and about 107 feet in height.