Word: architecting
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Erastus Salisbury Field wrote a twelve-page description of his vast architectural dream. In it he declared: "I am not a professed architect, and some things about it may be faulty. Be that as it may, my aim has been to get up a brief history of our country or epitome, in a monumental form. . . . The towers are connected with suspension bridges, and the cars are going to and from the centennial exhibition, which is on the top of the central tower...
Better for Bettors. The Hipódromo has already cost Pagliai and his associates 7,000,000 pesos (approximately $1,400,000 ). Designed by Manhattan Architect John Sloan, it will out-glamor California's fabulous Santa Anita Park, generally considered the world's most ornamental race track. Snuggling at the foot of the snow-capped Sierra Madre Mountains, Sloan's dream track will have a three-tiered grandstand, four-tiered clubhouse with betting windows and cocktail bars on each level and a super-gaudy ballroom with a black marble floor, silver walls and shell-pink ceiling...
...many U.S. race tracks the clubhouse restaurant faces the paddock so that fans can watch the paddock odds-board while feeding. For the Hipódromo's customers Architect Sloan has shown even more consideration. The club's eight oval bars and four restaurants all face the track so that customers can watch the races as well as the tote board...
Died. Whitney Warren, 78, architect (Manhattan's Grand Central Terminal, the Ritz, Biltmore, Vanderbilt, Commodore Hotels, the reconstructed Louvain Library in Belgium), fancy-dressing individualist (he favored a cutaway, blue shirt, white waistcoat, flowing white tie, broad-brimmed hat, cape); in Manhattan. He founded New York's Society of Beaux Arts Architects, originated the famed Beaux Arts Balls. When he had finished reconstructing the Louvain Library he wanted on its balustrade the inscription Furore Teutonico Diruta; Dono Americano Restituta ("Destroyed by Teuton Fury; Restored by American Generosity"), but pacifist groups killed the plan. In 1940 Teuton fury destroyed...
...apprentice to snow-maned Architect Frank Lloyd Wright pleaded guilty in a Madison, Wis. court to refusing to appear for induction, got a period of grace from Federal Judge Patrick T. Stone to "think it over." The apprentice denied the teacher-architect had told his students to evade service by becoming conscientious objectors, but the judge had his suspicions. "I think you boys are living under a bad influence with that man Wright," said he. Up at his Spring Green colony Wright exclaimed: "I would no more dream of counseling my students against going to war than I would dream...