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Show covered pergola extends around one side, with seats for onlookers. Back of this a water-court connects the inner lagoon with the lake, so that boats from the cluster may find their way to the lake. Bridges, carrying sale booths. cross this water court, connecting the central field with the mall. On either side of the central field are casinos, towers, pergolas. boat houses. bathing pavilions, connecting with the adjoining gardens by means of bridges and ways, passing through architectural screens and water courts. Balloon-carrying lights and colored streamers fixed to flying gaffs are utilized as decorations. Plate LXI. Dwelling for William Norman Guthrie, Sewanee, Tennessee. Plate LXII. Atelier in concrete for Richard Bock, sculptor, Oak Park, Illinois. Designed as a home and workshop for the sculptor. To be located on a lot 50 feet wide by 175 feet deep. A pool occupies the front of the lot. Plate LXIII. House and temple for Unity Church, Oak Park, Illinois. A concrete monolith cast in wooden moulds or """"forms."""" After removing the forms the exterior sur- faces are washed clean to expose the small gravel aggregate, the finished result in texture and effect being not unlike a coarse granite. The columns, with their decoration, were cast and treated in the same way. The entrance is common to both buildings, and connects them at the center. Both are lighted from above. The roofs are simple reinforced concrete slabs, waterproofed. The auditorium is a frank revival of the old temple form, as better suited to the requirements of a modern congregation than the nave and transept of the cathedral type. The speaker is placed well out in the auditorium, his audience gathered about him in the fashion of a friendly gathering, rather than as fixed in deep ranks, when it was impera- tive that the priest make himself the cynosure of all eyes. After services the audience moves directly toward the pulpit and out at either side of the auditorium itself. Unity House is designed for the various social activities of the church and for the Sunday school. CHARLES E. ROBERTS, FRANCIS W. LITTLE AND DARWIN D. MARTIN-THREE AMERICAN MEN OF AFFAIRS,-WHO HAVE BELIEVED IN AND BEFRIENDED THIS WORK WHEN NAT- URAL OPPOSITION FROM WITHOUT AND INHERENT FAULTS WITHIN THREATENED TO MAKE AN END OF IT. WITHOUT THEIR FAITH AND HELP THIS WORK WOULD NEVER HAVE REACHED ITS PRESENT DEVELOPMENT. FRANK LLOYD WRIGHT. Plate LXIV. Facade of Unity Temple. |