Word: architecting
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...attempt to give the U. S. something new in church architecture last week had proved too revolutionary for Kansas City's public works department. Months ago aging (71), progressive Pastor Burris Jenkins of Kansas City asked Wright to design a new Community Church. Aging (71), progressive Architect Wright responded with what he called "the first completely functional church." Last fortnight Commissioner of Buildings Frank Lloyd (no relation) Lang took a look at the plans, refused to issue a permit because they did not comply with the city's 1927 building code. He demanded more exact specifications...
...floor, instead of visible radiators, its steel-&-gunite walls. Such walls have never before been built-they are made of steel props interwoven with flexible laths of steel and paper, on which is sprayed gunite (cement shot from guns)-the whole only 2¼-in. thick. Architect Wright's plan for the Johnson Wax plant at Racine, Wis. in 1938 similarly set the Wisconsin State Industrial Commission on its ear. Its columns were neither pillars nor posts but tall stem forms, tapering from a concrete disk 20 ft. in diameter at the top to a shaft 8 in. thick...
City-Planner Wright, like many another architect, thinks that the bombing of Europe's cities is likely to be a blessing in disguise. "After all," says he, "what is St. Paul's? An imitation of St. Peter's in Rome. I don't think anyone will miss Wren's work much. Broadacres is going to England as soon as there is a chance for it to be shown there. This will be immensely beneficial to England...
...Washington who was just as anxious to get rid of Congress as Congress was anxious to leave was Capitol Architect David Lynn. Since 1938, Architect Lynn has been expecting the Capitol roofs to fall in. The 120-ton ceiling over the House, the 90-ton ceiling over the Senate, constructed of ornamental glass and wrought iron, hang from cast-iron trusses. Tests have shown that some of the trusses have shifted as much as an inch and a half under the stress of snows, winds, years...
After two years of talking about it, Congress last June appropriated $585,000 to fix the roof. While Congressmen snoozed, debated, passed bills and paid no further heed to the danger hanging heavy over their heads, Architect Lynn anxiously waited for a chance to move in and erect temporary steel props. That job will take five or six weeks. If Congress ever decided to stay away for six months, he would tear off the whole roof, build...