Studio: international art (16.1899)

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for a permanent structure, preserving with little
change the central and most highly decorated part
•of the Exhibition building, with the dome, peristyle,
and piazza, so arranged as to constitute a hall of
rational recreation for about 5000 people, and en-

" solitude" by frank p. mahony

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by s. long

compassed by a promenade of about a thousand
feet round. At the time of writing no definite
decision has been come to as regards this pro-
posal, but there is good reason to hope that it may
be carried into effect. The situation is an admir-
able one for a building of the kind; directly
accessible by large masses of population on the
one side, while on the other it faces across the
Kelvingrove Park. With the University and the
Art Galleries it would combine to make up a
series of buildings on the bend of the Kelvin
whose position and grouping would be in every way
admirable.

Remonstrances have been made by artists and
others regarding the proposal to do away with
the little Adam house, the original "Kelvingrove,"
which forms a part of the present museum in the
Park. The ostensible objects of its removal are
to give a better place for the temporary Grand
Hall, and to obtain a view of the grounds for the
restaurants, &c, attached. One sees no reason
why these desirable enough objects could not be
attained apart from the destruction of this memo-
rial of the eighteenth century, and of one of the
most distinguished of Scottish architects, especially
if a cheerful sacrifice be made of the more modern
part of the museum, whose always ill-fulfilled
occupation is now nearly gone.