BRIDGE HOUSES
GERMANY REVIYES FASHION . OF BUILDING OVER STREETS Germany has ravived one of the customs of the Middle Ages — bhe quaint practice of building houses "across the street." Freed by new materials from the limitations of wood and mortar, modern archifscts have designed numerous "bridge" houses which "hurdle" the thoroughfare in newer districts about Berliii (reports the Christian Science Monitor). A span of more than 130ft, hridging a wide boulevard, is used by Professor H. Salvisberg in a "settlement" apart-ment-house in Reiniclcendorf, in the east of Berlin. The apartments have two and three rooms, with lcitchen * and hath. The flat roof affords space ? for gymnastics, and is fitted with i showers. The' building is of iron frame \ construction. With' its simple pleas- | ing outlines, resting on slim sup- •
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Rotorua Morning Post, Volume 2, Issue 418, 30 December 1932, Page 3
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129BRIDGE HOUSES Rotorua Morning Post, Volume 2, Issue 418, 30 December 1932, Page 3
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