OCR Text |
Show COMMON SENSE IN CONSTRUCTING EXPOSITION BUILDINGS. It is gratifying to observe that many of the buildings to be H erected by the Alaskan-Yukon Exposition at Seattle, Washington, H arc to bc permanent structures and after the exposition is over they m are to be turned over to the State University and become a part and H parcel of that institution, to be used for educational purposes. I W e never could understand why in the past the buildings m erected at the national and international fairs were not built so that H they could be used, to advantage, permanently. In the past when a great exposition has been held the buildings have been designed by m the ablest architects in the world and have been constructed by the most competent builders available. Great attention has been paid to H thc matter of making these buildings attractive and pleasing to the eye; in fact, we rather think that among the chief attractions of any SKJi ?" ithu? n- hd(1 haVC bccn thc architectural designs d l I Sri'" b"'!dlS:s erected. There would be buildings for the I , t'J TS'v nUl nat'"al buildings, manufacturing and agri-I agri-I It ult flnffS' 'irra"RC(1 ; harmonious position so that rc- gardless of the contents of the buildings, it was always cducnt mini instructive and edifying to behold the symmetry of oiitlh e a 1 he beauty of construction of thc manifold buildings on 1 e cxSos t on grounds, and yet after the exposition was over these b HSs were razed to the ground and became nothing but debris mum,m-s ucrc Now at last it has been decided that beauty in architectural construction is not on y a holiday nlcasnro i,,,t :V arclmcc.tural |