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...Banque Lambert, Brussels, a project designed by Skidmore, Owings & Merrill's top designer, Gordon Bunshaft (whose Lever House was the ultimate in glass slabs), with Engineer Paul Weidlinger. Using precast, prestressed concrete with great discipline, Bunshaft has created a rhythmical façade with all the richness of an Italian palazzo...
Poor Man's Plato. The new assignment has been added to a schedule already strained. Six days a week Adler, 56, disappears into a 55-year-old Pacific Heights mansion in San Francisco, headquarters for the Institute of Philosophical Research. Behind this imposing title and façade, Adler and six fellow brains have spent seven years patiently sifting the "Great Ideas" of the ages (by Adler's classification, 102), seeking to mold their meaning into patterns intelligible to all men. At the institute's rate of progress (their first "Great Idea," freedom, is half explored...
Last week Texans walking through the new Cullinan Hall found it good. The building is supported by four 82-ft.-long girders above the roof, leaving 10,000 sq. ft. of column-free space beneath a 30-ft. ceiling. Opening to the north is a curving façade of grey-tinted glass which has become the main museum entrance. In such stark simplicity, the touches of elegance-Roman travertine on the entrance stairs and terrace, green Venetian terrazzo floors-take on a rich but restrained resonance...
...lying false façade-all this is called...
Equally successful is the butterfly-roofed conference hall. With roof and monumental façade shaped from folded concrete slabs, it attains simple dignity by the drama of its stark engineering. Says Nervi: "At last reinforced concrete has become a 'noble' architectural material...