Studio: international art (52.1911)

Designs for a Village Hall



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DESIGN for a village hall

for a village hall, the
problem seems to have
been one which has ap-
pealed to a considerable
number of them, princi-
pally, it would appear,
from the simple nature
of the conditions, and
also on account of the
absence of any limit in
cost — that bugbear of

$w£r fc&JSl designers. This condi-

.....tion was intentionally

m^7h^l " omitted in order that

(cordon Sanderson) each designer might be
free to deal with the

Saracenic colour ; Portuguese men in fishing- problem in his own way and with regard to local
boats with lateen sail atilt, make picturesque circumstances familiar to him, but the fact of
studies along the wharves. Within the thickly- the hall being intended for a village of course
populated districts Chinese and Japanese in implied that the building was to be one in
quaint costumes fill every available crack and which simplicity and picturesqueness should be
cranny ; while French, German, Italian and the dominant notes. These characteristics, the
Spanish restaurants give Bohemian sustenance former especially, make for an economy in ex-
and character to the artist life and help to make penditure that was adhered to by nearly all those
an ideal studio as well as all-year sketching who sent in designs. Still, though on the whole
ground of California. this is true, there are cases in which the esti-

mated cost seems altogether too high for a village

SOME REMARKS UPON A SERIES hall and its simple adjuncts. Dannwin, for
OF DESIGNS FOR A VILLAGE example, proposes ^"3,730 as the cost of a
HALL. building which certainly has a remarkably

good plan, and in which he introduces a
JUDGING by the response made to our invita- space for properties (see illustrations, pp. 134,
tion to architectural designers to submit designs 135).
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