Studio: international art (87.1924)

THE ARCHITECTURE

OF THE

BRITISH EMPIRE EXHIBITION
BY FRANK BRANGWYN, R.A.

BRITISH EMPIRE EXHIBITION, NORTH-WEST
ENTRANCE. ARCHITECTS, MESSRS. SIMPSON
AND AYRTON. DRAWING BY K. MURRAY

THE great exhibitions which have been
promoted in this country in the past
have had few claims to serious aesthetic
consideration, although the opportunities,
sometimes missed, of decorative and fan-
tastic treatment, have often been greater
than the one which claims our attention at
the present moment. The very nature of
the British Empire Exhibition is antago-
nistic to the spirit which produced the

softened lines of the ornamented, un-
English buildings of what was imagined to
be Southern Europe or Asia, and which,
in the past, we have been accustomed to
associate with exhibition pleasure grounds.

On coming nearer to British ideals the
exhibition recently held in Gothenburg,
illustrations of which appeared in The
Studio for October, 1923, may be
mentioned as one of the foremost of

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