The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1910-10-16

-.'..n .. "a" iurur'anr" IL IN" apart
%. .. Lp.~.' j.. th. glc.n>. grICtiuu If New
i.re cry ..I - ,agrur. -, owners 20
De. 90 with o.. r" thought g .7tIst.r merit
f..'n agsuI., - ysth.ts th., hest IL
3. r..'..U. = he new ',uI'uc.s- IN ar
.l.-.,i4r.. Particularly 10 commercial
architecture. scattered along IN" ave-
uu.. a." business buildings that cannot
D." "N"'ll't ln any other city IN M" world
lh,-.. bulld.ug- ~, art .~ticallv far m
ad,..r"" ut IA" mod"rn architecture,
q Berlin and London. AID even excel
.ralv "f tn hnal'Iful structures for
winch PG-ls - noted Below twenty
third street ar" long rows ~ buildings
rhA' r.="whl" nothing else - much -,
they b. hL-r.0ks ~ first glance they
would -."ru O., o.. atrDvert the statement
th-' IN" ..rohit", M Il tins city and
PARTICULARLY Of tuth AvenI" - I'uprpv-
Jag However. their mpupt nous on
'arIurS represent uUr . survival - the
DID idea Nhioh long dominated ihs. plan
Llug 81 business buildings ~ this city
and which - nov pU III" w.An". VIZ. the
-t.a"rGIn-'Ion uf b'auty - commercial
efficiently
Iu tu.. past huilder- could not So. the
object M Spending money IA improving
exterior appearance when a plain unpua-
GHs-'-SIug buIldinR would hurg m IuSi
- hIR "a roll Now they are beginning TO
r"iliZ" that IN" im1roy "msnf Of indiy dual
standards o! architecture means an en-.
IaHr"nsnt in the reputation ~ business
ne ghborhood. which IN turn means
higher rents based on the advertising
yalI" - he districts greater reputation
Also m the case " the barracks below
Iw"n'v-'Nird street. u must be remem-
TERED that they are given over go a species
e business which renders them practically
nothing NOR" than factories and vieWnd
~ Factories fhcF can boar CON ia riaon
with ~Iruillr structures m any other
r1ctrOpolIr
II j. ia" stretch % tho avenue above
IhT'.-tpIrth street and extending n
.tr north - Forty-s~cond street which
uold- the greatest promise for the future
90 those VIM dream ,hat New York NAV
vet com" To possess beauty - rho sort
that Paris. for example" Possesses In
'h'e" eight blocks may be found some ~
~" finest examples II orr abandonment
commercial architecture az course the
'r'" and independent New Yorker may
HiI.d what aud " here h" ChOOs.,z 80 long
.,. n" harkens to 10" voice - the building
inspector. Who's" restraining influence.
haS almost altogether 20 do with practical
rather than H.-th"ti" features - con
-'fT.ltIuu
Thus lack - restraint works to prevent
'h' unity - stvl" necessary 20 the be CHEST
.'"iUiy ~ municipal architecture Two
or three blpCks ~ ~" fortunate quarter
Jvf r"f"rr"d 10 happen ~ b. built M
with Struc'u-'7- - the same general char
a''"f THIS augurs w''ll FOR the future.
III" real problem IN the cass 81 Fifth
a""n r!'' ~ not IS" much - establish n higher
standard - architecture in the new build
~ - a. 10 d"yis'' some means ~ blending
~" various ,fyl.'- into harmonious unity
T. - not 40 much "A ease u the md vidual
~ o. " ~ ~" VhOl"
ID" IIfth Av"nr" Association. which
Ia u a. n
g"u"ratinE Do" 'hpr0ughfare from which
u take o." ti'l". "A fcN weeks a 90 appointed
q rpnW!'f"" - prominent architects TO
consider tbs difficulty and set about de
,IsIHg % -OiuftOn j VI CaTrerp ~ tho
firm ~ CArrrre 4 HastinEs. ono ~ the
MON b"rs ~ thus committee outlined
Z heir ideas ~ follows.
For some time We have been Twin