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Our Architectural Chapter.
are m ^ worthy of adoption , although ^ the general designs may not have received one of the six premiums . There will th ^ number of premiums than is usual in a competition ; the architect owning the first premium will have the commission on the works to be executed ; but in case the Board of General Purposes see fit to withdraw the superintendehce of the works from him , then some adequate eompensatlon should be given , say half commission .
1 he way in which the new foreign Office nominally , but in reality all themew government offices have been handed over to George Gilbert Scott / first astonished the architects and now astonishes the public ; for such a stretch of administrative prerogative was never contemplated . The late government having superseded the
competitors and employed ijheir pet surveyor , Mr . Penn ethorne ,. by a vote of the House of Commons a committee was appointed to investigate the subject and to hear evidence . Of this committee , Mr . Beresford Hope w ^ s chairman , and he conducted the case , hearing numerous witnesses , but notwithstanding his open bias in favour of Mr . Scott , he did not dare to ask the committee ( which sat -till-the
end of the session ) to recommend that Mr . Scott should be put over the heads of the other competitors , nor did they so report . Since the meeting of parliament , the organs of Mr . Beresford Hope have been preparing the public mind for the resignation of Messrs . Goe and HoflahcTs priz ; e design , and for a limited competition , in which Mr . Scott and Messrs / Banks and Barry should have part ; but
though a preference was exhibited for the pointed style , it was not assumed that it was at once to be imposed on the public . While the profession and the public were looking for this competition , which was to determine whether Italian or Gothic was to be the style , and
whether Mr . Scott should take the premium for Italian , and Messrs . Banks and Barry for Gothic , all at once it was announced by Mr . Beresford Hope ' s organ that his partner , Lord John Manners , had nominated Mr . Scott to carry out his pointed design for the new Poreign Office .
For this audacious act no efficient reason has been given , but several frivolous ones . Already the columns of the Times are full of controversy ; and so we may fully expect that when parliament meets we may find architecture a more prominent topic than it was even in the last session , and Mr . Beresford Hope and Lord John Manners arraigned before the House of Commons' for their conduct ; for though they
thought they were only oppressing architects , yet this is a matter m whicli the public are made to take a concern , for the imposition of pointed architecture and pre-Raffaelitism on the country , as a matter of Puseyite dictation , is not to be so complacently submitted to as the projectors of this scheme of invasion contemplated .
Bro . S . W . Daukes , Grand Superintendent of Works , was engaged last week in a case of great professional interest , being an action brought against him by the Middlesex magistrates on the plea that , as their architect , he had subjected them to heavy loss in the case of
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Our Architectural Chapter.
are m ^ worthy of adoption , although ^ the general designs may not have received one of the six premiums . There will th ^ number of premiums than is usual in a competition ; the architect owning the first premium will have the commission on the works to be executed ; but in case the Board of General Purposes see fit to withdraw the superintendehce of the works from him , then some adequate eompensatlon should be given , say half commission .
1 he way in which the new foreign Office nominally , but in reality all themew government offices have been handed over to George Gilbert Scott / first astonished the architects and now astonishes the public ; for such a stretch of administrative prerogative was never contemplated . The late government having superseded the
competitors and employed ijheir pet surveyor , Mr . Penn ethorne ,. by a vote of the House of Commons a committee was appointed to investigate the subject and to hear evidence . Of this committee , Mr . Beresford Hope w ^ s chairman , and he conducted the case , hearing numerous witnesses , but notwithstanding his open bias in favour of Mr . Scott , he did not dare to ask the committee ( which sat -till-the
end of the session ) to recommend that Mr . Scott should be put over the heads of the other competitors , nor did they so report . Since the meeting of parliament , the organs of Mr . Beresford Hope have been preparing the public mind for the resignation of Messrs . Goe and HoflahcTs priz ; e design , and for a limited competition , in which Mr . Scott and Messrs / Banks and Barry should have part ; but
though a preference was exhibited for the pointed style , it was not assumed that it was at once to be imposed on the public . While the profession and the public were looking for this competition , which was to determine whether Italian or Gothic was to be the style , and
whether Mr . Scott should take the premium for Italian , and Messrs . Banks and Barry for Gothic , all at once it was announced by Mr . Beresford Hope ' s organ that his partner , Lord John Manners , had nominated Mr . Scott to carry out his pointed design for the new Poreign Office .
For this audacious act no efficient reason has been given , but several frivolous ones . Already the columns of the Times are full of controversy ; and so we may fully expect that when parliament meets we may find architecture a more prominent topic than it was even in the last session , and Mr . Beresford Hope and Lord John Manners arraigned before the House of Commons' for their conduct ; for though they
thought they were only oppressing architects , yet this is a matter m whicli the public are made to take a concern , for the imposition of pointed architecture and pre-Raffaelitism on the country , as a matter of Puseyite dictation , is not to be so complacently submitted to as the projectors of this scheme of invasion contemplated .
Bro . S . W . Daukes , Grand Superintendent of Works , was engaged last week in a case of great professional interest , being an action brought against him by the Middlesex magistrates on the plea that , as their architect , he had subjected them to heavy loss in the case of