Replacing the rail.
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How about 14:8:11? They came to replace the balcony rail yesterday. The arches built 95 years ago with a Classical 1:1:1 ratio coming out of 2500 years of tradition and a heritage going back to Euclid and Pythagoras now sport a 14:8:11 ratio.
A Harmony of all the Parts in whatsoever Subject it appears, fitted together with such Proportion and Connection, that nothing could be added, diminished or altered, but for the Worse.
--Renaissance architect Leon Battista Alberti
on beauty in architecture
Things without order, rhythm and harmony go with ill words and ill feelings, but good order goes with courage and self-control.
--Plato, "The Republic"
Proportion itself depends essentially upon the employment of mathematical ratios in the dimensions of a building...No defect is more [glaring] or more unpleasant than want of proportion.
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