The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1910-03-13
DECUY CITY'S ARCHITECTURE
RI ~ BLICiN CLUB>TOLD cry
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Arueli HrunOer Attributes 20 America
me irt sG CSN erinS Oae MatertaI
With Another % Make % I.Ssk ILke
Thlrd-A Police Palace % S;ayety.
p the most part the speakers at the
= -day discussion luncheon Of the Rs
...tn,an Club yesterday decried the
....rit~cture OF modern New York. The
,.ct was Modern Architecture Ia
>, YORK and Some % Its Specific
F.| lens
lrnold W. Drummer. president Of the
\.N York chapter Of the American In
.te Of Architects. opened tine dis
,..-~.,n with a few definitions Of Ameri-
,lr architecture. The art Of covering
u,- material with another to make it
,,k like a third. Was one. and another. or
r, her a comment. was american humor
r-s hes ,tA height in American archi-
r...ure He said that the city Was
..dug backward in a general way in
this phase Of its activity. There IA
.. General scheme IN its building. M re-
lt.rn between buildings.- said Mr.. Brun.
I-- ~ ~ haphazard He instanced the
method Il procedure in Paris. There. he
saId they have a general plan all COM
80 In relation TO a civic centre. and
y n"n they have money to build new build
.ng~ they simply carry out another sec
tom II the plan. PR Drummer said he
had no Use for the phrase the city beau-
uful- His ideal city was one Of health.
--nst and practicality; after those the
eauty could easily be added. He re-
grr,ted the want Of approaches 20 some
II orIr large buildings.
ARearhsarvr hrOa.1he nrN a..
subject u the new city Court House.
'Wth the new muniCipal building he
- a. and the new Court House City
Hall PARK will he Lost. and that must
not he for every inch Of park space in
New York IL sacred 20 ia welfare. Even
-lhVays at the cost Of parks would he
a doubtful blessing. Why do We want
ro construct the lung power Of our city
which il to-day spending millions in it's
warfare on UnberculOsisl-
The Rev. DIR. Thomas X. Slicsr had
some words on the subject % the ethical
-esponsihility q: architects. lie thought
that the tenement house crime and the
cnngeSfiOp difficulties might be over
come IL business interests would allow.
The architects arr not TO hlAne for what
they build.- he sad. They are martyrs
Co their trade. they have 90 go ahead and
do what they are told. aud 90 they CON-
nye for the advancement Pf the busi-
ness interests OF their clients II they are
told 10 build q block which will give ac-
combinations for 5000 people they must
d. 80. We cannot ex pect them to give
w their profession for their ideals.
stewart llaTney was very much
amused az the new Public Lihrary at
forty second street and Fifth avenue.
~ said: The columns on the fifth ave-
rrie front remind me 81 40 manv FROST
bitten sInnowerp leaning against fence. =
7 hen he went on to the new Police Head
.IArterS. 7 hers ~ M fr,ore solenan place
ilsn police station he said. and yet
'Hst building looks from the outside
Ike some Dalace 10 gayety- The New
h..a tire came in for a share 10 his scorn
~. -aid that everything Ne had over here
vas a cory % turopean ideas produced
many times larger. Monumental 10 our
r!ea what IN Gods name does monu-
mental mean
IN, story Of the first skyscraper here
vas very interestingly told by Bradford
80 Gilbert. who had the honor % de-
gning the steel structure at ~ Broadway
which was over ten stories high and the
Z ri ~ it's kind. He told how architects.
-rg ne-rs and the press had -cofed AZ
- tower building prophesying that 70
UYIld tumble in the first wind storm.
u. said thar they had an eighty mile gale
sron after it was completed and he had
%. 20 up and stay on the roof To show his
ovn faith. He even went 30 far as to
'aAs Offices on the Top floor Co convince
80 public and his client that it was safe.
Hs aid the building never has blown down.
,lmmieeioner Slower was decidedly
against the City Hall Park the site for
80 new court house. He said that for
TO- value Of the site there we could pur-
,.a=s ~ good a site near 10y and he was
'Hr the preServatiCh Of every bit OF park
ausCe We had.
Dpn Barber. president Of the BeauX
Arts society. proposed new city de-
Iartment especially for the purpose 81
looking out for the future arrangements
o. the city's growth. 30 that there need be
o. more ten minute New York de-
'isluns when a new building Was needed
Robert u. Kuhn said that fifty families.
=. 0stiy Of the richer class, we're housed
.Isf year in private houses. while 78O0O
a-r. housed in apartments and iene-
f.su'z and he said that except for Ger
'-'n legal restrictions as to AIR and santa
ton these tenements were being built
40, a. carslessly a. they were thirty
'sarS ago.
Nr Hummer closed the session With a
prom - that the architects would he ready
r'h their help when IL vas aksed for to
n1az" a better city.