Word: architecte
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Hunt Hall was designed by architect Richard Hunt, who also designed the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York. It was completed in 1895 to house the Fogg Art Museum, which was since moved to a building on Quincy Street, across from the Yard...
...relinquished his post as party First Secretary, naming his longtime protégé Erich Honecker as his successor. Ulbricht retained the largely ceremonial office of Chief of State. Few Germans, East or West, will mourn his passing. Yet few can deny that Ulbricht alone was the architect of modern East Germany, whose separate existence the West Germans have finally accepted and 89 nations now recognize...
...against the Monument wall inside the wide circle of flags. One of the figures was the ghost of Thomas Jefferson, that noble idealist who symbolizes the dream of the American Revolution; the other was the ghost of Alexander Hamilton, who, perhaps more than any other single person, was the architect of the modern American system of government...
...Architect-Entrepreneur John Portman has done as much as anyone to turn Atlanta into a boom town-and a good-looking one at that. In the process he has become a multimillionaire. Once a part-time usher in a local moviehouse, he designed and was an initial owner of the $200 million Peachtree Center complex of office buildings, shops, restaurants and hotels, including the spectacular Hyatt Regency Atlanta, that has revived the city's downtown...
...West Eggian elegance, so they transplanted The Great Gatsby to the more richly idle colony of Newport, R.I. Otherwise, no emerald-cut stone was left unturned to ensure authenticity in re-creating Gatsby's lavish parties. The set was Rosecliff, a villa designed in 1902 by Architect Stanford White. The Packards and Mercers and Rolls-Royces lining the driveway were lovingly polished antiques. The gowns were late 1920s originals, and the million-dollar armature of jewelry was certified Cartier. It was only fitting, therefore, that among the 500 extras chosen for their "air of bored arrogance" there were more...