The Studio yearbook of decorative art (1915)

SMALL COUNTRY HOUSES AND COTTAGES


BUNGALOW AT TILE HILL SYDNEY R. JONES AND C. M. C. ARMSTRONG, ARCHITECTS

available. With these materials, and with due regard to the old tradi-
tions, the new work is being done.
Although the aesthetic claims of architecture are best met by the employ-
ment of local materials, it is not always economically possible to use
them. The cost of building is a most important point, and reasonable
cheapness, consistent with good work, is not only desirable but, in most
instances, necessary. Facility of transit to-day makes distribution of
commodities easy and cheap, and it may be less expensive to build with
such as are obtained from a distance. When these circumstances exist,
and outlay is an important consideration, a compromise has to be made.
The imported materials
should be used in such a way
as will give results most ap-
propriate to the surround-
ings and adhere as closely as
may be to the type of work
belonging to the locality.
The use of stone may be
cited as an example ; it is
now expensive to employ it
on account of the high
chargesfor necessary labour.
Consequently, in places
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PLAN OF BUNGALOW AT TILE HILL