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...attractive development of Roosevelt Island, largely along the restrained, human lines laid down by Architect Philip Johnson, has been all the more remarkable, considering the astronomical value of its real estate; its 147 acres are worth up to $1 billion. To forestall rapacious commercial exploitation, New York State's Urban Development Corporation in 1969 leased the island from the city for 99 years and has spent $180 million on it. But development has been crimped by money shortages-and, until this week, by the fact that the only means of access was by a backdoor, time-consuming route across...
...that, is self-starting and fertilizes grass while cutting it. Anette van Dorp, 22, an enterprising agriculture student in Bonn, West Germany, concluded last year that such a machine already exists-only it is called a sheep. So she persuaded her mother Doris, the wife of a prosperous architect, to lend her $15,700, and last spring set up an ewe business named Gesellschaft fur Schafsverleih (free translation: Rent-a-Sheep Co.). It buys sheep from farmers and rents them to businesses and home owners who want their grass cut cheap...
Died. Alvar Aalto, 78, Finnish architect whose people-oriented, evocative structures ranked him among the great innovators of 20th century architecture; in Helsinki...
George Wald, Higgins Professor of Biology, was also asked to comment for the article; he told The Quarterly he "viewed the colonies with horror." Wald called Harvard's Le Corbusier-designed Carpenter Center "a goldfish bowl--just the thing for an artist." He described Paolo Solari, the Arizona architect, as "that gifted man, making bony structures in the American desert." Wald's point is that this kind of dehumanizing architecture is getting us ready for space colonies, like...