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However, Science Center architect Sert Jackson, various Buildings and Grounds officials and Francis A. Lawton, assistant dean of the Faculty for facilities, decided that erecting a snow fence above those wings would provide adequate protection...
...your story on Howard Hughes [Dec. 13]. It is ironic that a man capable of building and directing a billion-dollar conglomerate was the architect of such a pathetic paranoid prison for himself. However, his Christian aides resemble piranhas more than Christians...
...million concrete and marble basilica is supported by 1,000 subterranean pillars and can hold 20,000 people without a single column obstructing the view of the altar. "Thousands of pilgrims want to get a glimpse of Our Lady's image at the same time," explains its architect, Pedro Ramirez Vazquez...
...expectations come true? One way is to turn big department stores into shoppers' lures-places where customers will go to find one item, then linger to buy others. That takes design, and one man with the kind of designing eye that merchants appreciate is a 36-year-old architect-artist named Kenneth Walker. He is something of an iconoclast, merrily discarding what he calls "formula work-all those fancy chandeliers and moldings" in favor of fresher approaches...
Sudden Speedup. Irvine's management is "the best in the business," says U.C.L.A. Professor Fred Case, a land-development expert. Mobil and Cadillac Fairview have added their praise. Still, Watson, a 50-year-old former San Francisco architect who joined Irvine as planning manager in 1960, admits that he feels "apprehensive" about the impending takeover. One danger is that a new owner may order a sudden speedup in Irvine's growth in order to increase its profits; that could expose the company to the same boom-and-bust cycle that bedevils other developers...