Mr. Alfred C. Bossom, the distinguished British architect who has
practised with such success in the United States for the past twenty years, believes that commercial architecture in England is not carried " by the younger architects to the highest degree of economic advantage to the owner of the property." He has there- fore decided to award each year in every large architec- tural training school in Great Britain a silver medal for the best design for a commercial building based upon a programme prepared by some body of standing. Mr. Bossom proposes that the designs by all the winners of silver medals should be judged by a special jury, and to the winner of this second contest he proposes to award a gold medal and a travelling studentship to the United States, enabling him to study the large industrial and commercial buildings in America. Mr. Bossom is to be congratulated on his public-spirited action, and he is not by any means alone in thinking that Great Britain has much to learn from America in modern commercial architecture.
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