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...museums, a black steel-and-glass carton. For symphony halls and convention centers? Ditto. For houses? O.K., for houses, something more domestic--a steel-and-glass carton in white. All the same, the best of what he did is still utterly beautiful. Around the lobby of the Seagram Building in New York City, threads of steel outline wide fields of glass to make the tonnage of the upper stories float. His dual apartment towers on Lake Shore Drive in Chicago are as elegantly self-contained as Japanese bento boxes. And his nearly all-glass Farnsworth House in Plano...
Miller had already set the example by hiring Eliel's architect son, Eero, a friend since they studied together at Yale in the 1930s, to build what would become one of the country's first banks with all-glass walls and an atrium-like interior. The town fathers soon followed Miller's cue, recruiting famous architects to design eleven stunning new schools, including an octagonal brick, glass and wood edifice by Chicago's Harry Weese. As the architectural contagion spread through Columbus, Saarinen fils wrought a hexagonal house of worship for the North Christian Church, which...
OFFICES AND BUSINESSES. New York Architect Richard Stein reckons that there are plenty of ways to cut energy costs in office buildings, starting with lighting standards. These are set to meet unnecessarily high requirements, he says, and waste electricity. Stein also would avoid designing buildings with sealed, all-glass facades (he advocates windows that open). Such little design changes, he estimates, could reduce air-conditioning needs by 20%. Others suggest staggered work shifts, some at night or even on weekends, to ease peak daytime loads on power plants...
...Glass Prototype. He considered glass, and in 1919 designed a 20-story all-glass office tower for Berlin which, though never built, is the admitted prototype of all the great glass-and-metal skyscrapers that followed. He considered concrete, and in 1922 designed an office building with the continuous strip windows that are now a near cliche. He considered the room as a planning unit and concluded that it could be dispensed with, proving his contention in his famed German Pavilion for the 1929 International Exposition in Barcelona. Since then, his low buildings have been characterized by a single floating...
...Chicago's 860 Lake Shore Drive apartments, his dramatic demonstration of open planning for tall apartment living behind all-glass facades...