The Building News and Architectural Review, Vol. 8

Download or read book The Building News and Architectural Review, Vol. 8 written by and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2017-05-25 with total page 452 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from The Building News and Architectural Review, Vol. 8: A Weekly Illustrated Record of the Progress of Architecture, Sculpture, Painting, Engineering, Metropolitan Improvements, Sanitary Reform. &C., &C., &C.; January 3, 1862 Where a building reaches the highest possible pitch of artistic excellence its defects or excellencies, in a constructive point of view, are, for the most part, almost overlooked, and its arrangements are scrutinised with a comparatively careless eye. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.