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Nr. 188 (November 1908)
DOI Artikel:Recent designs in domestic architecture
DOI Seite / Zitierlink:https://doi.org/10.11588/diglit.20965#0144
Recent Designs in Domestic Architecture
and simplicity quite consistent with that early
period. The hall is notable for extreme severity
of treatment. The upper gallery leading to the
bedrooms is characteristic of the old style of
Scottish architecture. The drawing-room is typical
of the architect in the absence of that over-elabora-
tion still too common in modern domestic archi-
tecture. Mr. Clifford is particularly fond of eliminat-
ing the cornice, and all dust entrapping projections,
and he is as sparing with mouldings and curvilineal
distribution as some of the extreme exponents of
the modern renaissance.”
Our remaining illustrations come from places on
the far side of the New World. First we have
(pp. 124-5) examples of domestic architecture
by a Western Canadian architect, Mr. S. Maclure,
and with these we quote some notes sent us by
Mr. Mortimer Lamb, of Montreal.
“Even in these globe-trotting days,” he remarks,
“the majority of people in the Motherland still
hold the haziest notions respecting conditions and
developments in Western Canada, a country
which is usually associated in their minds with
visions of Red Indians, grizzly bears, and hardships
and perils not in a degree far short of those which
the traveller in the wilds of Central Africa may
reasonably expect to experience. Yet in reality
the standard of comfort is very much higher in the
towns and villages of British Columbia than it is in
many of the large cities of European countries ;
while even in the mining camps and small settle-
ments such luxuries as electric lighting and tele-
phone services are not uncommonly provided.
“The two principal cities of the Province are
Victoria, the seat of Government, and Vancouver,
the commercial and trade centre of the country.
Victoria has a population of about 30,000, while
that of Vancouver is probably 80,000. Both cities
are most charmingly situated, and in the residential
sections the majority of building sites, or ‘lots,’ as
they are locally termed, are so laid out as to
command magnificent prospects. Here is a broad
expanse of ocean (of a blue as deep as that of the
Mediterranean), out of which rise in the distance
SOMERSBY HOUSE, POLLOKSHIELDS
H. E. CLIFFORD, F.R.I.B.A., ARCHITECT
and simplicity quite consistent with that early
period. The hall is notable for extreme severity
of treatment. The upper gallery leading to the
bedrooms is characteristic of the old style of
Scottish architecture. The drawing-room is typical
of the architect in the absence of that over-elabora-
tion still too common in modern domestic archi-
tecture. Mr. Clifford is particularly fond of eliminat-
ing the cornice, and all dust entrapping projections,
and he is as sparing with mouldings and curvilineal
distribution as some of the extreme exponents of
the modern renaissance.”
Our remaining illustrations come from places on
the far side of the New World. First we have
(pp. 124-5) examples of domestic architecture
by a Western Canadian architect, Mr. S. Maclure,
and with these we quote some notes sent us by
Mr. Mortimer Lamb, of Montreal.
“Even in these globe-trotting days,” he remarks,
“the majority of people in the Motherland still
hold the haziest notions respecting conditions and
developments in Western Canada, a country
which is usually associated in their minds with
visions of Red Indians, grizzly bears, and hardships
and perils not in a degree far short of those which
the traveller in the wilds of Central Africa may
reasonably expect to experience. Yet in reality
the standard of comfort is very much higher in the
towns and villages of British Columbia than it is in
many of the large cities of European countries ;
while even in the mining camps and small settle-
ments such luxuries as electric lighting and tele-
phone services are not uncommonly provided.
“The two principal cities of the Province are
Victoria, the seat of Government, and Vancouver,
the commercial and trade centre of the country.
Victoria has a population of about 30,000, while
that of Vancouver is probably 80,000. Both cities
are most charmingly situated, and in the residential
sections the majority of building sites, or ‘lots,’ as
they are locally termed, are so laid out as to
command magnificent prospects. Here is a broad
expanse of ocean (of a blue as deep as that of the
Mediterranean), out of which rise in the distance
SOMERSBY HOUSE, POLLOKSHIELDS
H. E. CLIFFORD, F.R.I.B.A., ARCHITECT