Mention'($i00 each) PS. Chu, Yang and. Shen It Yuan, According. to the report submli= ted by the Jury of Awards, the Shanghai competition shows dia tinct advance in comparison ish the competition held in Nanking last summer. However the jury felt that none of the winning" designs reached the hoped-for standard, 'The principal defects of the great majority of the designs, a stated in the jury's report, wore "failure on the part of the competitors te preciate the, requirements Grand Plan,' or "'composition-on monumental scale;" "lack of eufcent concentration for administra: tive efficiency, and failure to bring the units into close enough relation ship. for architecturally efecto composition," and "lack of apprectaltion of the full possibilities of Ohi eae architecture and. knowledge to how to adapt it most success: fully to the practical requirements of modern planning and construction without sacrificing its essomtidt aesthetic qualities."
The purpose of the competition was not only to assist the municipal authorities in their immediate tail of "working out, a. practical "and [beautiful civil contre for Gtenter Shanghai, but also to encourage architects of China to prepare them selves for their future work in adapting Chinese architecture "to modern governmental requreren, Now that the competition has fended, the 'Commission is working out a final scheme for the Civie Centre; the designs of individual municipal buildings are also being: studied and: worked out, Tt sve' pected that the corner-stone of the! first building will be inid-before year ends great and unnecessary. The: order! therefore directed the "Director bf the Public Safety Bureau for "the! 'Shanghai District to seo that~ the' practice_was no longer observed.
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.