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Recent designs in domestic architecture
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ably drawn, as also were those of
Dundee.
Excellent in its way was the third premiated
design for Langside District Library by Mr. A. G.
Henderson, of the firm of Honeyman and Keppie.
The competition was an open one, over one
hundred designs being submitted, and the scheme
under notice sought to give a logical expression of
the plan which did not lend itself to an absolutely
symmetrical arrangement. The firm above referred
to exhibited photographs of wash-drawings of
their winning design for the rearrangement of
Glasgow Cross, an undertaking which, unfor-
tunately, involves the removal of the old Tolbooth
Steeple to a new site.
Scant justice was done to “ Balmadies,” Colinton,
built for Lady Ochterlony, in the pen-and-ink
sketch by Mr. M. M. Ochterlony. All the public
rooms seemed to be formed within a triangle, and
the bedrooms, seven in all, are on the first floor.
The house has been de-
signed on the “sun trap”
principle. The walls have
been faced with 18-inch
hollow bricks, rough-
casted ; the roof being
covered with green But-
termere slates; and for
the steps and dressings
stones from the Haile
quarries have been used.
The woodwork in the
drawing-room was finished
in ivory enamel, with walls
painted silver grey. With
the exception of the door
furniture and the switches
in this apartment, which
are oxidised silver, the
fittings in the rest of
the house are bronze.
Throughout the wood-
work, apart from the birch-
wood panels, is whitewood,
finished a pleasant olive-
brown with Solignum.
Next to this work was a
frame containing illustra-
tions of “Raheen,”
Bearsden, a small but
well-designed house by
Messrs. Alex. Cullen,
Lockhead, and Brown.
They were also repre-
sented by illustrations of entrances to three public
buildings, especially good architecturally being
that for Hamilton Municipal Buildings, part of a
joint scheme which was successful in open com-
petition ; its counterpart, the library and town
hall, has already been built.
The next exhibit as given in the catalogue
showed six interior views of “ Nether Caberstone,”
Walkerburn, Peeblesshire, designed by Mr. J. B.
Dunn, F.R.I.B.A., of Edinburgh, for J. R.
Ballantyne, Esq. Of these it has only been
possible to illustrate one, namely, the dining-room.
The walls are panelled in oak up to the ceiling,
which latter is raftered in a simple manner. A
feature of the room is the chimneypiece, with its
carved surround and tiled interior. In the inner
hall, which is panelled out in long upright panels,
there is a fireplace of somewhat unusual design.
The scheme of decoration is completed here by
the deep ornamental plaster frieze, having a motif
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Dundee.
Excellent in its way was the third premiated
design for Langside District Library by Mr. A. G.
Henderson, of the firm of Honeyman and Keppie.
The competition was an open one, over one
hundred designs being submitted, and the scheme
under notice sought to give a logical expression of
the plan which did not lend itself to an absolutely
symmetrical arrangement. The firm above referred
to exhibited photographs of wash-drawings of
their winning design for the rearrangement of
Glasgow Cross, an undertaking which, unfor-
tunately, involves the removal of the old Tolbooth
Steeple to a new site.
Scant justice was done to “ Balmadies,” Colinton,
built for Lady Ochterlony, in the pen-and-ink
sketch by Mr. M. M. Ochterlony. All the public
rooms seemed to be formed within a triangle, and
the bedrooms, seven in all, are on the first floor.
The house has been de-
signed on the “sun trap”
principle. The walls have
been faced with 18-inch
hollow bricks, rough-
casted ; the roof being
covered with green But-
termere slates; and for
the steps and dressings
stones from the Haile
quarries have been used.
The woodwork in the
drawing-room was finished
in ivory enamel, with walls
painted silver grey. With
the exception of the door
furniture and the switches
in this apartment, which
are oxidised silver, the
fittings in the rest of
the house are bronze.
Throughout the wood-
work, apart from the birch-
wood panels, is whitewood,
finished a pleasant olive-
brown with Solignum.
Next to this work was a
frame containing illustra-
tions of “Raheen,”
Bearsden, a small but
well-designed house by
Messrs. Alex. Cullen,
Lockhead, and Brown.
They were also repre-
sented by illustrations of entrances to three public
buildings, especially good architecturally being
that for Hamilton Municipal Buildings, part of a
joint scheme which was successful in open com-
petition ; its counterpart, the library and town
hall, has already been built.
The next exhibit as given in the catalogue
showed six interior views of “ Nether Caberstone,”
Walkerburn, Peeblesshire, designed by Mr. J. B.
Dunn, F.R.I.B.A., of Edinburgh, for J. R.
Ballantyne, Esq. Of these it has only been
possible to illustrate one, namely, the dining-room.
The walls are panelled in oak up to the ceiling,
which latter is raftered in a simple manner. A
feature of the room is the chimneypiece, with its
carved surround and tiled interior. In the inner
hall, which is panelled out in long upright panels,
there is a fireplace of somewhat unusual design.
The scheme of decoration is completed here by
the deep ornamental plaster frieze, having a motif
Recent Designs in Domestic Architecture
Moraig,
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