The City of Domes : a walk with an architect about the courts and palaces of the Panama-Pacific International Exposition, with a discussion of its architecture, its sculpture, its mural decorations, its coloring and its lighting, preceded by a history of its growthBarry, John D. (John Daniel)
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The City of Domes : a walk with an architect about the courts and palaces of the Panama-Pacific International Exposition, with a discussion of its architecture, its sculpture, its mural decorations, its coloring and its lighting, preceded by a history of its growth
Barry, John D. (John Daniel)
Panama-Pacific International Exposition (1915 : San Francisco, Calif.)
Figures on fountains reflected in green water.
Reflections in pool in center of court; from north, half dome and figure
of "Harvest" above dome; from south, the bulls on the pylons.
View through north court toward bay, from half-dome, very interesting;
intense white light of scintillator directly opposite court; statute of
"Ceres," silhouetted against rays.
Banners in court, no heraldic designs.
Half dome in Court of Four Seasons; even distribution of light, ceiling
lighted from base of dome, lights diffused through dome and softly
graded down to floor by ten shell lamps up wall, back of vertical
projection on each side.
Through Aisle of Spring to Administration Avenue, facing Palace of Fine
Arts.
Along the Western Wall
Illumination: Yellow glow from single lamp standards along
Administration Avenue. Searchlights on top of wall, flooding Palace of
Fine Arts. Wall, lighted by reflection from shields; orange light
through translucent portion of shields.
High wall flooded with light, in strong contrast with dark rippling
surface of lagoon across the avenue.
Half-domes; warm golden glow; light from interior through stained glass
windows in domes.
Planting, trees cast tall vertical shadows against wall; heavier shadows
at base, from massed shrubbery.
Palace of Fine Arts
Illumination, "triple moonlight," three times the strength of the moon's
rays. Searchlights flood the building; concealed yellow lights on
cornices in rear of columns. Three effects; flood lighting, relief
lighting, and combination of both. One night, flood light; next,
combination.
View from Administration Avenue across lagoon; finest reflections on
grounds; changing views; small sections of lagoon, mirror-like; others,
rippled or wavering; entire colonnade and rotunda reflected.
Suggestion of ancient ruin, intended by architect, brought out by
lighting. Great shadows, deepening toward base of columns.
Contrasted colors in colonnade, from across lagoon; pink walls, dark
green doors, columns silhouetted against walls.
In the Colonnade, Entering From North
"Triple moonlight," bright rays across colonnade through columns, making
intense shadows; when moon is shining the fainter rays cut weirdly
through shadows; suggestion of moonlight coming from two directions.
Reflections in lagoon, from along colonnade, north of rotunda; West
facade of walled city, with half domes of Palaces of Education and Food
Products, and dim reflections of Italian towers. Changing reflections
all along colonnade, and from rotunda.
Rotunda, on nights when relief illumination is used, lights on capitals
of Corinthian columns; deep color effects in murals on dome.
View of palace from south across lagoon, with flood lights on rotunda
and colonnade.
Avenue of Palms
Quality of light brings out color detail; fine display of flowers;
massing of shrubbery at base of wall, and tall trees casting vertical
shadows.
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