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.)
Elephant and lion fountains along south wall; colors, pink and blue;
rippling of water causes light to wave.
Central doorway of Palace of Liberal Arts, rosetta or rose-window effect
in semi-circular space above door; orange light through lattice work of
door.
Court of Palms
Court of Palms, illumination of towers from searchlights. Only direct
light, from single white globes painted to imitate Travertine, and Roman
hanging lamps around in corridors; faint red shines through from below.
Reflections in circular and rectangular pools; north, east, and west
portals; the columns, the colonnades at sides of entrances, the murals
above doorways; pinks, blues, reds, orange.
Murals above east, west, and north doorways, best effect at night.
Illumination at base of arches throws light on upper part of mural,
shading softly and gradually down to base.
Palace of Horticulture
Dome of Palace of Horticulture; beams of light from concealed
searchlights play through revolving lenses and color screens of green,
orange, and red, fading slowly into each other in moving designs on
glass dome.
Floral hanging lamps in east and north entrances; deep green of lattice
work in domes above; hanging lamps along porches, pearl-white light.
South Gardens
French lighting standards, pale yellow light, hundreds of Travertined
globes, soft light unique ivory color.
Clusters of lights- look like bunches of grapes.
Reflections in pools north of Young Women's Christian Association
Building and Press Building
Flood lights on equestrian figure in Fountain of Energy.
Court of Flowers
No searchlights, no direct illumination; suggestion of dimness and
seclusion.
Italian towers, glow of light through small doors above entrances;
appearance of life inside; strong strong red shadows on first lift;
turquoise columns on next lift, pink background.
Lamps in corridors, Italian and Roman; translucent, dull red light.
Floral lamp standards between columns in corridors, pale yellow light.
Flood light shields at south entrance to court; too bright necessarily.
Festival Hall
Reflection of Festival Hall in pool; Fountain of the Mermaid silhouetted
against entrance window of hall; golden light through colored glass.
Warm pink illumination inside towers at corners of large dome; green
coloring of dome, more effective than by day.
Blending of lines of building with planting against walls.
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