Word: architecte
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Hillside development, for which ground was to be broken instanter, will provide 5,378 rooms for 1,581 families at an average of $11 per room per month. Designed by Architect Clarence S. Stein, who built a famed model colony at Radburn, N. J., the Hillside community's buildings occupy only 34% of their 697,000 sq. ft. site. There is a 2½-acre playground. Dead-end streets, footpaths and an underpass to the school across an arterial highway from the development safeguard children. Most of the buildings will be four-story walk-ups. Some will...
Unperturbed by a protest brought before the R. F. C. by the Board of Estimate and New York realtors, many of whose boxlike Bronx apartment houses are tenantless, Mr. Straus, Architect Stein and Andrew Eken announced: "The granting of the loan . . . marks, we hope and believe, a milestone in better housing for people of limited means. Governmental encouragement of such work will provide immediate employment for more than 1,000 men on the Hillside housing operation. . . . Further similar action on the part of Reconstruction Finance Corp. will provide the greatest possible stimulus to employment, as well as create a lasting...
Thus, only two months ago spoke Hector 0. Hamilton, British subject and East Orange, N. J. architect, famed for his prize-winning design for Moscow's projected Palace of Soviets (TIME, March 14). When he spoke Mr. Hamilton was in Manhattan but expected to spend most of his time for the next three years in "a peach of a suite in Moscow at the Hotel National...
...street in Madison, Wis., Architect Frank Lloyd Wright...
...Architect of the Supreme Court's new home is Cass Gilbert whose design is along classic Corinthian lines, with simple masses carefully proportioned. Builder is George A. Fuller Co. The building's overall measurements are 385 ft. by 304 ft. With the exterior finished in Vermont marble, Alabama marble will be used on the interior, Georgia marble will be used in the four courtyards. At Architect Gilbert's insistence and to the dismay of penny-pinching Congressmen, the Court chamber itself will be finished in Italian and Spanish marbles-a fact so far discreetly soft-pedaled...