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Among the great skyscrapers built in Manhattan during the 1920s and '30s, the 56-story Chanin Building has worn its years well-as has its creator and namesake, Irwin Chanin, 91. The architect is being honored by his old alma mater, New York's Cooper Union, in a retrospective. Chanin designed eight Broadway theaters and two monumental apartment houses on Central Park West. Perhaps his most cherished work is his personal suite of art deco offices on the top floor of the Chanin Building. The bathroom alone, done in glass, mirror and gold plate over bronze, cost...
...face flushed with excitement, his eyes gleaming, Levine came onstage slowly, basking in the bravos. Shyly bowing from the waist, his hands resting on his thighs, his head bobbing up and down in mute response, he seemed more the precocious pupil being celebrated by his schoolmates than the architect of an international musical triumph...
Part of the credit for this goes to George M. White, who, after being appointed Architect of the Capitol in 1971, decided that Roman pomposity had become a Capitol embarrassment. White stopped further encroachments on the surrounding residential neighborhood. He commissioned a master plan for development of the congressional campus within its existing boundaries. And when a third Senate office building became necessary in 1972 (supplementing the Dirksen and Richard Russell buildings), he spurned the short roster of traditional architects who had worked on Capitol Hill for generations and selected John Carl Warnecke and Associates...
With his customary calculated hyperbole, James once called himself a "sartorial structural architect," and some of his gowns were constructed on the body like suspension bridges...
...Cabrillo Village Farmworkers Cooperative Housing, Saticoy, Calif. John V. Mutlow of the Mutlow Dimster Partnership, architect. Subsidized by the Farmers Home Administration, this adobe-style project was designed for low cost, conservation of energy and family privacy...