Word: architectes
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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PLACE DE LA CONCORDE is the triumph of planning produced by a brilliant architect named Jacques Ange Gabriel for his royal client, Louis XV. What Gabriel succeeded in doing was creating a square without surrounding it on four sides with buildings. To accomplish this, he formed a unit by crossing the axis of the Champs-Elysées, leading to Versailles, with a secondary axis delineated by the Rue Royale, which leads to the classic Church of the Madeleine. He marked the boundaries with a moat, placed small buildings in each corner, set an equestrian statue of the King...
English Painter Arthur Fretwell, 38, who makes a living as the art master of the church school at Hucknall, Nottinghamshire, received an interesting letter last January. It came from Nathaniel Montague. Lane, 68, the diocesan architect who designed the Anglican Church of Saint Mary the Virgin in the nearby coal-mining town of Mansfield. Architect Lane, with only limited funds, wanted to know if Fretwell would like to paint five pictures of incidents from the Virgin Mary's life for the church's gallery. There was only one condition: "The more controversial the panels are, the better...
Died. Arthur Brown Jr., 83, topflight architect, longtime official consultant on architectural work in Washington, D.C., who served as chairman of the architectural commission for the Golden Gate International Exposition (1939-40), designed San Francisco's City Hall, Opera House and Coit Memorial Tower (atop Telegraph Hill); in Burlingame, Calif...
...Department of State had a commission to challenge any architect: 1) build a million-dollar U.S. embassy in Athens just one mile from the Parthenon, 2) make it a showcase of U.S. modern architecture, but let it be classical enough to fit its surroundings, 3) give it a warm, friendly, inviting atmosphere expressing U.S. democracy. For the assignment, State picked German-born Walter Gropius, 74, founder and onetime (1919-28) director of the Bauhaus, later chairman of Harvard's department of architecture, and founder of his own cooperative architectural firm in Cambridge, Mass., The Architects' Collaborative (T.A.C...
...resembles A Comedy of Errors. To the antediluvian Ames mansion at Pruitt's Landing, an "unspoiled" Long Island town, repairs the following partial cast of characters, some Ameses and some not: a superannuated dandy who is chauffeured about in a Hotchkiss landaulet; a Manhattan model; a frustrated young architect who works for Vahan Rabadab Associates ("All Rabadab buildings looked like banks of file cabinets with the drawers open"); a proletarian scowler ("No thanks, I don't usually bathe until Saturday night"); a divorcee with an "I'm-a-dangerous-woman voice cribbed from old Libby Holman records...