Exhibits of Lumber Products Will be Established in New Architects guilding at Los Angeles

One of the most complete and comprehensive exhibits of lumber products on the Pacific Coast will be established in the handsome new Architects' Building now nearing completion at Fifth and Figueroa Streets. Miss Mary Louise Schmidt, to whose efforts the construction of this building can be largely attributed, is removing her exhibit of building materials. from its present location in the Metropolitan Building to the ground floor, basement and mezzanine floor of the Architects' Building, where many new exhibits will be installed and where many of the old exhibits will be redesigned and enlarged.

The purpose of the Architects' Building is to bring together under one roof the many branches of the building industry and there will be offices for architects, contractors, insurance brokers, interior decorators, finance companies, attorneys and other affiliated with the industry. It will be in a sense a clearing house for the industry and it is believed that the problems of the builder, whether he is planning a bungalow or an office building, will be greatly simplified when the building is completed and occupied.

The building as it now stands is the result of the collaboration of several of the city's leading architects, all of whom will occupy space in the building, and their work has resulted in a building which is not only architecturally beautiful, but which will have many interesting and unusual features. The architects who developed the plan are Dodd & Richards, Carleton Monroe Winslow, Reginald D. Johnson, Roland Coate and Witmer & Watson.

The Architects' Building is a twelve-story fireproof structure and was erected at a cost of approximately $750,000. The building is of true monblithic construction, all walls, columns and beams throughout being of poured concrete. For architectural effect the architects relied upon form and mass rather than upon exterior ornamentation and the exterior of the building, therefore, is of extreme simplicity, pilasters, staff work and other ornamentation of this type

COOS PILING & TIMBER CO.

North Bend, (Coor Bay) Oregon

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California Repreeentativer: having been eliminated. After the forms were removed the entire exterior was gone over with a grinding machine and through this process the form marks were eliminated and the desired texture given to the concrete. The color was secured not by the use of paint, but by using an acid treatment, staining the concrete the desired color, with the panels a slightly darker shade than the columns. Through this treatment the architects strove not only for permanency of construction, but for permanence in the color treatment as well. The entrance hall is finished in terrazzo and marble, while the upper floors are finished in marble,'tile and mahogany.

ANDREW F. MAHONY LUMBER CO. No. I Drumrn Street, SAN FRANCISCO, CALIF.

In order to permit as wide latitude as possible in the arrang'ement of office suites, the upper floors are in the nature of large lofts which are being subdivided and finished

JAMES L. HALL

Lumber-Piling-Poler

Shingles Postr

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