The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, September 8, 1899, Page 1

_‘__‘_,4_ VOLUME LXXXVI-NO 100_. SAN FRANCISCO, FRIDAY. SEPTEMBER 8, 1899. PRICE FIVE CENTS, +O4SHOHO+0404040+ 0404040 BENARD PLANS FOR BERKELEY [ ,‘0’0‘0'0‘00000009000000000 g GREAT CONTEST ENDED ¥ DHO+0+040404C +0HO+C+0 404040 PR gt ! Mrs. Phebe Hearst’'s Splendid Prize Has)| Been Awarded. ] Four American Architects Divide | the Remaining Honors of Com-| petition and Receive Rewards. sngland, France and hitects were in- ot signing a perf 1s well done the world en- prize of money and the pros- | the cts fire. It was re- ese designs’ re- apr val « t : h Ameri- ench $10,000, i | not rtiality even i desig covered and G A e ST SIEUR E. BENARD, THE WINNER. plans for th Department of Rome. He has been prominen new State [ the Lower Seine livers e, in 1544 were awarded the He is ly identified with sor 1o le de Beaux #s v the jury of archi- Arts of the greatest modern archi- None lans prese of the site other iaptability marvelous designs lifications them in the qu mentioned. They are for a uctures commencing west of the ent canrpus and extending to the \pproach pre limit of the university property and far up to the summit of Grizzly where the proposed observatory ing is to be located. Peak, vaild- | of the pla @+THO+OHIPTHTHO+O+ O +040+ UNIVERSITY WITHOUT RIVAL A Magnificent City of Learning Is Finally Designed. Millions of Dollars and Years of Time Must Be Given to Make a { Brilliant Dream a Reality. In making his designs Benard has a | utilized to the very best ad age the grounds as they are; that is. he has 1 rved the contour of the property as much as possible. The jury co: | ered that a dec ble point as the excavations ed in s would have been ex nd would have destroyed a4 prompted the jury to Benard's designs the first y fave propc me ly expensive 5 to t | many of the beauties of the surround- Thev a4 with ings. Even the oak trees nty of p St Gniv “hile the somew rated e main groups they located to both the nnasium and the tle streams in the | have been taken into cc |2 Benard, and his rranged that pone of th d. In the main th tecture adopted is mc | terned after the clas are sel buildi aside from their ns. are | was inspired e all wash draw- upon classic ally executed. As to | somewhat to the Roman lonic order. buildings, that is a | Opening off Univers con tion. The which the architect d drawn to represent stone, - great court, = ignates the Fine Arts Square. Around n likely that is the mater st e s uped the educational in the ructior s has not been is taken into plans call nw seventy-five structur. many of which are more imposing tha any buildi 1 this city, a fair ic 1ay be formed of the outlay nec ew university. s & Hornbostel, whosa E ked on n entirely different idea from Mr. Bee nard. They gave prominence to the strictly speaking. To the south are the theaters, two in number. and structures of 1mposing design. | East of the Fine Arts end of an avenue upon which ancient and modern history, the library, the administration buildin= and the department of jurisprudence, is the athletic field, backed up by the ath- letic hall and sium. At the sides of the athle court are th tribunes, and the 2y sium is a most | beautiful structure h of the at dormitory feat ioie ey letic building and ¢ the military | ine these iR e department. The ngs are $0 10- | the edn e SR to and from buildin. at the quare rom fifty -t n -2 ary, won second place, wo ational de cated that crowds can pa | Iy ecrowded. The classical buildings the athletic section without ®OINZ|are placed on the piateau at the foot through the main grounds. of the hill. The athletic section is praca tically placed t nard plan, altho Up on the rising ground toward Griz- zly Peak are located the natural hi 3 group—the departments of zoo- |in it the amphitheater form. The are and similar branches. v ent of the grounds provides fos museum of zoology is included in the | two main entrances; one from Univers group. The observatory i: located at | sity avenue and the other:from Tele the top of Grizzly Pésk and is a’proni- | graph avenue, the main thoroughiare inent feature of the plans. leading from Oalkland. Mr. Howells of Down in the park where this firm son of William Dean How= houses now stand the architect has | list. | placed a number of smal' dwellir Despardelles & Codman, presumably for the use of memt third in the contest, went the faculty. At the other extrer | the limits of the universi the grounds, remote from all other | L university buildings, is the infirmary. The dorm | tories are situated on the hillside and the club houses are west of the athletic field. | ered with It was the spacious opening court The same as in the Bee h they ve treated the hot- | who camae outside of y territory. on a sc appalling. land on both sides of are taken in and cove gs of intic propore fauit the jurors found with most tions and the. general laying out of the plan.| these designs was that in carrying out | that won it favor with the jury. Thefa very fel ddea thel anchl scia arrangement of the buildings on thehill | divided the university by a wide pub= | was not considered quite perfection or | lic boulevard, extending in a semis in any comparison with the lower |cjrc¢le from the end of University groups, but the excellence of the latter | avenue to Telegraph avenue. This overbalanced whatever deficiencies | practically cut in twain the groups of | there were in the balance of the gen- | buildings. The athletic section is given BENARD DESIGN FOR THE NEW UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA.