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Title: The Architect & engineer of California and the Pacific Coast
Year: 1905 (1900s)
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Subjects: Architecture Architecture Architecture Building
Publisher: San Francisco, Calif. : Architect and Engineer Co
Contributing Library: San Francisco Public Library
Digitizing Sponsor: San Francisco Public Library

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and the charminginfluence of the far east Orientals. Honolulu is new in that she is modern in thought, andintent. She is scientifically commercial and culturedly.social. Her whole tendency is progressive,—without in-terference, she is destined to become a new world metrop-olis, as brilliant as Athens of old. Honolulus architecture will constitute a new branchof splendor on the tree of the classical Renaissance. Herknowledge and keen perception make her understand thebest of traditional precedent and the perpetual possibili-ties of modernization. The result must be a new and ap-propriate type of architecture, dignified and consistent.It shall breathe the greater, finer spirit of these Islands,and their intimate relationship to that which in precedentis best. It shall be essentially modern and vital, that itmay be recognized the world over as the Architecture ofthe Mid-Pacific, the Hawaiian Renaissance stvle of .Archi-tecture, the spirit of the far west. THE ARCHITECT AND EXGIXEER 51
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52 THE ARCHITECT A\D E.\GL\EER BANKING HOUSE AND OFFICE OF THE FIRSTNATIONAL HANK OF HAWAII. AND BUSINESSBLOCK FOR MESSRS. M. McINERNY COMPANY,LTD.. HONOLULU TIK )SE wlio recall Mr. Miillgardts Court of the .-\ges,or Court c)f .Xbundance. at the Panama-Pacific Inter-national E.\;)osition. will note in the Hawaiianproject a flevelopnient of a motif and a .spirit which thereappeared in his work for the first time. On the first story of all street frontages runs a monu-mental arcade. Higher stories, the number of which ineach buildinjj is determined by the requirements of theparticular case, step back from the plane of the arcadein the manner of a clerestory. Thus all structures, whilefree to meet and to express their several individual re-(;tiircments. are obedient to the unifying influence of onedominant line and motif of composition. The arcadesma\ be treated as open passages, or may be includedwithin the floor area of the building, as circumstancesdictate. As a result of the arrangem

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