Word: architectes
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...wife, "Santa Claus isn't here yet." Hanisch was, indeed, like a boy waiting to see a new toy. Twenty-nine months ago he set out to build a dream palace for his small (140 employees), 17-year-old pharmaceutical business, the Stuart Co. He hired Manhattan Architect Edward D. Stone after seeing a picture of Stone's highly praised design for the New Delhi embassy (TIME. Sept. 10, 1956), and then announced that he would not so much as look at the building until it was completed. He decided that an architect is "like a surgeon -when...
...First Look. Hanisch kept his word, though he admitted he had passed by the plant late one night after a bridge party and "damned near knocked off three cars looking the other way." Now it was opening day. With Architect Stone, Owner Hanisch rode up to his brand-new, three-acre, $3,000,000 combined office and plant in Pasadena. He saw a dazzling, 400-ft.-long, low, white-and-gold façade, faced with an airy grille of masonry, half given over to a carport spaced by hanging saucer-gardens. Black-bottomed reflecting pools reached under the cantilevered...
...medieval Basilica at Vicenza. His improvised solution-a two-story arcade made up of Doric and Ionic columns that frame intervening arches supported by free-standing columns-was so brilliantly successful that it has since been copied the length and breadth of Europe. A decade later he was the architect Venice turned to for the plans of San Giorgio Maggiore, one of the most beautiful, classically ordered churches in the city. But it was the country villas, built for a merchant aristocracy that had recently discovered the bucolic life, that impressed succeeding generations...
...from oldtime Film Cowboys Tom Mix and Buck Jones, who used it to stable their horses-is the largest piece of underdeveloped real estate in a city that is rapidly running out of space. Quietly for the past year, Fox has been drawing up plans to exploit the plot. Architect Welton Becket's models call for Fox to shrink its moviemaking operations into 79 acres on the southwest part of the property, build a $15 million structure to house all its offices and indoor stages. (For outdoor shooting, Fox has a 2,300-acre ranch, 25 miles away...
...Design School student, Boston architect Hugh A. Stubbins will complete the design within three months, and architectural blueprints in time for groundbreaking by next November...