The silver state. [volume] (Unionville, Nev.) 1870-1903, 1902-11-22
have Departments of Designs. In Paris
and the rest OF Europe the exposition

architects are not separated by sucf
magnificent distances as in America
If they do not live in the exposition
city, they live so near that they can get
to a conference of architects very
quickly and comfortably. They do not
a train as preliminary to using few
hours in conference. II question
arises at european exposition that
pertains to more than one building
and needs for its solution an architect
eye and training, the architects can be
brought together very quickly. If a
monument or some other architectural
feature, not connected with any build
! ing, is needed to lend balance to the
composition or to give an unbroken
impression of harmony to the eye as
it travels from one building to the
next, the architects can be called to-
gether to plan the monument or the
feature. In this country after the
commission of architects has planned
| the general artistic scheme Of the ex-
position its members go home and give
their attention to planning the single
buildings assigned to them. The chair
man of the commission, who is also in
this exposition the Director of Works,
| and the Chief Design are left in the ex-
position city to elaborate, digest and
perfect the plans, to study and decide
the millions OF details which were on
,ly limited at in word in the confer
ence Of the commission of architec S.
The Director of Works, occupied with
the physical carrying out Of the plans,
with contractors and executive com
mittees, has not the undisturhed lei
sure Indispensable to the highest ar
tistic resu'ts.
The Chief of Design is therefore en-
trusted with studying and working out
details which in foreign eynasitions
are attended to by the architects In
conference He is, under the Director
Of Works, the resident representative
cf the commission Of architects. This
/ brings to the Department of Design
the dressing up and decorating of the
grounds, including the designing cf
all monumental. landscape and water
effects. The Department Of Design
supplies the setting for the buildings
Of the architects-the frame for their
pictures. 1t designs the bridges and
monuments, plans the treatment of the
'agoons, the big water effects. the en-
frances, the gardens, the fountains, the
lamp-posts and the music pavilions.
All this brings the Chief of Design in
close touch with the Department of
Sculpture and the Landscape Depart
ment.
In this exposition the cascades, the
ins are the decorative climax. The
problem here was the crowning Of a
big hill with three architectural fea-
lures as terminal points in three con-
verging avenues, and to combine these
three features into decorative treat
ment. Three highly ornate buildings
were decided on for these termina,
features. A decorative co'onnade was
hit upon for the uning feature. This
colonnade is made up of IA repetitions
Of an exedra motive designed to frame
symbolic of one of the states of the
purchase. This composition has BEN
given the name of the Terrace of
states
The center of the terminal buildings,
which is the Festival Hall, was design
ed by Cass Gilbert Of the commission
of architects. The two side buildings
were planned by the Chief of Design
They are pavilion restaurants, and
they have been treated as vantage
points from composition of the layout
scheme there are five axes, the pavil-
ions are five-sided.
In the pavilion restaurants three
stages of various elevations are sup
piled, whence visitors may take the
view while dining. The first stage
is the surface of the ground roughly
on a level with the Terrace of States
The second stage is the floor of the
pavilion some ten feet higher up. The
third stage is an observatory floor
some go feet from the ground. On each
OF these levels luxurious restaurant
furnishings will be maintained, and