The tall tower on the water's edge is planned as a monument to anything. It has a staircase inside it. It would serve as an attraction. It has a viewing platform to see the city, the harbor, and the river.
Housing sizes run from the smallest to the largest and most luxurious. Eery quantity of bedrooms from studios to five bedrooms are provided. It is the most varied mix possible.
The building are designed to give no problems with respect to structure or economy. For the space produced, they are planned to give the lowest cost. They are capable of being built using the widest variety of building techniques: steel, concrete, masonry, wood frame and many combinations of these.
The architecture is suggested as traditional with some revivals of details with respect to towers, dormers,, bay and oriel windows, and decorated gables and fire wall divisions.
The larger facades should be somewhat varied in details between fenestrations on adjacent floors in order to avoid repetition and the resulting inhuman scale so common to larger buildings.
The materials to be used in the building are: slate, brick, metal siding, some precast concrete, some stone. The market buildings are of steel and clear with architectural glass. The plazas are in precast concrete, or stone. The parade and the market parking are of cobblestone.
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