when equipped with ordinary glass on the larger shaft. The cost of
construction of the building would be less per cubic foot of contents,
and the renting floor area, in the case under consideration, would be
increased more than twenty-two thousand square feet, this being a
ten story building.
By the use of Luxfer Prisms, story heights may
be reduced and a further savings effected in the first cost of the
building, again giving the architects a greater latitude in the
proportion of the building. In a building 135 feet high an additional
story can be secured. The reduced floor height will obtain more light
by means of Luxfer Prisms, than the original floor height could
possible secure by the use of plate glass.
By the use of Luxfer Prisms the gloom and
dampness of basements are dispelled, and the income producing space
of the building increased by at least another story. The use of
Luxfer Prisms not only gives increase of renting area and reduces
light bills, but it renders the rooms in a new and beautiful
manner far more desirable for occupancy and use, and a better quality
and greater quantity of work is done every day. Thus it is possible
for an owner to rent those portions of the building which, under
other conditions, would be almost useless, and for the better portions
of the building to obtain increased rents. This is proven by the
fact that, as the records of the Luxfer Companies show, in more than
two hundred cases where leases have been made, the tenants, having
seen the effect of Luxfer Prisms elsewhere, have demanded that they
be put in as a condition of renewing the lease; and in other cases,
as the records of the companies show, the landlords have admitted
that their rents had been increased at least 25 per cent on account
of the use by them of Luxfer Prisms. The owner of undesirable
premises can have his property made remunerative at comparatively
small expense. Tenants of offices, stores, factories or apartments
can reduce expenses, transact business more satisfactorily, and can
enjoy greater freedom from disease through the agency of Luxfer
Prisms. The best interest of the owner of a building is the interest
of every good architect and of all good architecture. Luxfer
Prisms have brought to the hand of every architect valuable
opportunity
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