Word: architecte
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Just take off the grille façades and goodbye to Architect Stone's architecture. The U.S. Pavilion at Brussels is weak and frivolous and is in no way superior to the Soviet ''refrigerator...
...Architect Stone customarily extends his works of art into congruous surroundings of plazas and pools. What isolationism inspired him to louse up the restful mellow of a row of brownstones...
...like Architect Stone's grille work. The pigeons like it. The starlings are crazy about...
Judges of What? But behind the glowing words of Jawaharlal Nehru all is not well in Chandigarh. Some of the clients are in strong disagreement with the architect-a man described by Nehru as "one of the world's great men"-France's dogmatic, bespectacled Le Corbusier, 70. The first of "Corbu's" Chandigarh buildings-the massive, sculptural High Court-has won ringing praise from architects and critics. But the men who use it most, the High Court judges, have handed down some sharp dissents...
...palace dining hall to visitors and hangers-on. The loudspeakers, which customarily bellow the latest news during mealtimes, were silenced. The lord of the world's richest oil sands was so strapped for cash that his yacht Monsour had been seized in Genoa for nonpayment of an Italian architect's $600,000 fee. He was under intense pressure from royal family members to take some sort of action to save the regime, i.e., the princes' enormous financial allowances...