Illustrations:
Illustrations:
plan, elev, isometric of central court, sect
Notes:
Notes:
Both Bradbury and Wyman were preoccupied by the quasi-Fourierist promise of achieving a utopian future in America, as this had been partially described in Edward Bellamy's Looking Backwards of 1877. Bellamy's description of a commercial structure in his utopian novel reads like an account of the Bradbury building:'...a vast hall full of light, received not alone from the windows on all sides but from the dome, the point of which was a hundred feet above....The walls were frescoed in mllow tints, to soften without absorbing the light which flooded the interior.'