Word: architecte
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...exaggeration has not robbed of their capacity to marvel at superlatives, or to criticize them, last week visited an extraordinary exhibition in a Manhattan building modestly called "Corona Mundi" (crown of the world) on Riverside Drive. It was an exhibition of skyscrapers*- models, photographs and designs -assembled by an architect whose livelihood and reputation are in the building of skyscrapers, Alfred C. Bossom. When Manhattan should have gazed its fill, the exhibition was to go on tour...
...structure known as the Delmonico Building, comparing the grace of the tower to that of "an over-grown grain elevator", and found that legal complications ensued. The Delmonico Building, unfortunately for the New Yorker, did not "just grow" a In Harriet Beecher Stowe, but was designed by an architect, one no less than Mr. H. Craig Severance, who appears to be extremely sensitive to derogatory remarks about his work. At any rate he believes that the New Yorker should pay him $500,000 for the slander to his professional name and so firm is his belief that he has taken...
...orchestra was playing "Tell Me, Pretty Maiden" from Florodora when Harry K. Thaw shot Stanford White. The architect, who had started to rise when he saw Mr. Thaw coming toward him, sank back into his chair with an expression of sudden weariness while a tide of slow vermilion spread like spilled wine across the bosom of his evening shirt. That was in June, 1906. Now Harry Thaw has written a book...
...work, beyond cavil, was more original than Architect McKim's. The latter, a conservative gentleman of the highest type, was in his decoration a trifle too simple, austere, for many people's taste; his design too was severely academical. But everyone agreed that Charles McKim was exactly the man the firm needed to balance the exciting gifts of Stanford White. No one, even with an unlimited fund to draw on, could decorate a house like Stanford White. There was a certain discreet voluptuousness in his patterning of rugs and hangings of sombre and yet burning tones...
...threaded his way among the tables toward the place where Stanford White was sitting. That he had a certain amount of justification for what, at that moment, he was about to do, the jury admitted when they handed in their decision, but the allegations he made against the dead architect at the trial, and which he repeats in this book, have never been conclusively proved. There is, as there was twenty years ago, an odor of truth about them; the passage of time has failed to make that odor more savory. Page 106 of Harry Thaw's book records...