New-York tribune., 1907-12-14
IMPERIAL LONDON.
n.oceea;onal Road and WhitehaU-
An Euer-Changing Capital.
London, November 80.

,l styles and uniformity OF smudge In
~' s.ucco. brick and terra Gotta. is receiving
s'' .ouches during the Kings reign. The most
fesi v-orI. is the Professional Road. from
[.,e., os.I SQUARE TO Buckingham Palace and the
IT, IL. Memorial This splendid enterprise,
s,, he compared with Nashs thorough
Sh'u,,h Quadrant, from Carlton House Ter
p'" psrent's Park the chief achievement Of
-" naeency. is unfinished The ornamental
u" -, underneath the official residences of the
,,d of the Admiralty and the First Sea
r. ot Trafalgar Square is designed, but not
ar-,ed out with the extension Of the Mall
srb snring Gardens The spacious Road,
,.L ,,s six rows of trees. has been -remede
"a enlarged with a narrow strip from St
1A~ss-s Park, but the supporting arches and
.I.,ss are still lacking. The site of Mr.. Brooks
.n.orian monument is marked by a circular
.as,. nainted green. and there are signs of
ts.--~5sh activity within: and only a portion Of
,s.on webb's design for ornamental ap-
,h.e and barriers IN front and around the
80 has been completed The Palace. ~Consti-
80 rtIl. the broad footpath across Green
,,,s and the upper section Of St James's Park
-, .o be converted by architectural treatment
- landscape art into artistic environment
:. the monument itself at the end of the Pro-
.s,onal Road. When this striking scheme OF
,r,eretng avenues. park and water vistas and
.-roreu.al barriers IS competed a new ldSdue
:. .he unirnpressive Palace may be indispensa-
ble but that is not contemplated at present.
The finishing touches are coming with char
,s,sstic British deIberation- Constitution Hill
:. one Of the component elements Of complex
-.hs,e of euvironment-the scene Of several fu-
an. a,,enpts on the life Of Queen Victoria and Of
CIR Robert Peei's fatal riding accident The
pcosn arch originally dishgured by an eques-
,s,n statue Of Wellington vas removed twenty
sve wears ago from its first site TO the western
end of Constitution Hill. sharing the fate of the
Marble Arch, designed by George ~ as an orla-
mental trfumphai entrance TO Buckingham Pai-
ere and subsequently, shifted to the Oxford street
.,s :. Hvde Park. where 1t is utterly insignia-
can. Lord Michelham has commissioned Mr.
ADRIAN Jones to supply quadriga for this mas
.lre arch. designed by Decimus Burton as
cbr,nsuion piece for the gateway at Hyde Park
ce-ner which carried reliefs copied from the
f7rin marbles. A winged figure Of Peace VIII
he the chief figure, standing erect IN q chariot
drawn by four spirited horses, with boy char-
,oteer as driver. The ouadriga will be completed
hv the addition of imperial enblems and the IN
evitabIe British lion. This will be a gift TO the
nation and may inspire other millionaires 10
sunnly the statues and other works required Tor
he decoration of the Professional Road more
fsu,iIiarly known as the Mali AS the horses are
.hsn fourteen feet In height the quadriga VIII
4, into the background OF the Victorian memo
rial
The work at the lower end of the Professional
ensd. where an extension of the Admiralty ano
two residences have been planned, Win the
ornamental archway opening into trafalgar
souar. st the entrance to Whitehall. has barely
been begun. Whitehall itself is in the transition
stare of Renaissance, which seems TO mark the
sulnlrnent of lingo Jones's Palladian dream OF
Ali Italian thoroughfare Of palaces opposite
the Horse Guards, with Its dininutiye CLOCK
tower is the new War Office. an immense mass
Of ornamented masonry standing not four square
tut on an Irregular site. yet with cupola and
dom. at each corner. Il is not the Palladian
nalace planned by lingo Jones sor James l. WIN
8 long riverside front and splendid FACADE on
whitehall The central portion OF a single wing
Of that raIace alone was built, and it sun re-
mains as a museum. with renovated hupehs
oeyine ,o remind Londoners Of the superior and
more classical art of an earlier age Besioe II
fhe War Office lacks both beauty OF foftii anu
oenity of mass. and in place or the eAuoeia
Imagination and felicity of proportion charac-
s.nstic of the true Italian Renaissance there 10
ey.relaboratien of details of ornarnentauoh
On .he opposite side beyond Sir Charles Barry
facade for the Georgian Treasury and sir Gill;
h.rt scott's Italian quadrangle for the Holne'
eoloniai India and Foreign offices. are the MIN
.steriaI offices. which are barely hhsheu- A'
this immense structure fronts On Fariiaiheiit
Square as well as on Whitehall, II Is ofoushl
Tito close association with one OF the nooies'
Gothic groups in the world-the houses OIL fdI
lament. patterned after the Henry VII chaPel'
N. Westminster Hall OF William RUFUS SI MAI
raret's and Westminster Abbey with tie wren
towers The spectator. he STANDS IN tne
$n,u IryiYr
enriched Gothic around him, cannot heip "i'h
.,v .bo, ,be Poval Courts OF Justice could be
t,.,sferred from, the lower Strand TO TINS con-
genial environment Mr- Brydon- IN oeslshiiAe
the Ministerial offices. considered II indispehsa
Me ,ha. ,be Whitehall FACADE should correspond
WITH Sir Gilbert Scotts public onCes' snu ~
cordinsiy there is modern Kendissaiioe, '1
and fussy. with upper tiers OF pillars ano squa,e
towers such as Inigo Jones INTRODUCED H. Has
psrad.sn design for whitehall Paiace' anu oiie
cleaning pinnacle .
s..s q. Ioc.r Government Board. the Education
n.n.~+,. a,s rosssbly the Board of Trade.
dss,xuaines the character OF Whitehali aS
,n,aern Italian .horoughfare under ouI gray
SKY. In the turreted headquarters OF the met
rooolitsn poIIce there may be a suggestion OIL
the Scottish baronisi style: there may Do d
glin,pse Of Franco Scottish Renaissance In mon
tague House, midway among the trees OF Wh''e-
HI Gardens, and above and below the eques-
thar statue of the Duke Of Cambridge oy the
scslpsor of the new quadriga there may De
Aaatast,c admixture of sham classic ana non
eescrint STYLES, with glimmer OF hght on tiie
hideous ball tower of the Coliseum cheek ny
aoxl with the graceful spire and exqufsite "'eeA
roFtico of st. Martins; yet the dominating So
ef the street is set by this pretentious mass Oh
A.
line svr,,r.,r, of r,roportion or orderly adjust
,,.,. % ,ra,,,,- $, tt< surfaces of the facades.