Word: architecting
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...type of steel-reinforced concrete. The Packard fac tory became the first reinforced concrete and steel sash factory in the U. S. It also had window area of revolutionary proportions and a layout planned for efficient production. With this pioneering start, Kahn became the industry's No. 1 architect-engineer, has ever since designed most of Ford's, Chrysler's, General Motors' plants...
Divorced. Sarah Palfrey Fabyan, 27, darling of U. S. and British tennis galleries; from Marshall Fabyan Jr., 28, socialite Boston architect; in Reno (after she had failed to get a divorce in Massachusetts...
Meanwhile, in Finland, a brilliant young architect named Alvar Aalto and his architect wife, Aino, really got somewhere with modern furniture. Influenced by the Bauhaus and Le Corbusier (real name: Charles-Edouard Jeanneret), but experimenting in plywood instead of steel, they smoothed out geometric kinks, turned out chairs which combined the functional with good sense and charm. The Aaltos were the first to make chairs with pliant one-piece backs and resilient seats. They pioneered also in welding together layers of plywood with synthetic cement, cold-pressing them for six weeks into posture-pleasing shapes...
against the Golden Gate's 4,200, George Washington's 3,500, San Francisco-Oakland Bay's 2,310), it is the work of famed Swiss-born, 61-year-old Engineer Othmar H. Ammann (George Washington, Hell Gate, many another great bridge) and Architect Aymar Embury...
Meanwhile many a builder and architect (but nary a N. A. B. 0. M.-er) wondered whether Pittsburgh and Scranton, Pa. did not have the right idea in taxing land at twice the rate of property improvements. This tax tends to depress price of vacant land, make it readily available to builders. Early this spring, Scranton had taken title to 6,000 unsalable, tax-delinquent properties, hoped to make up for its tax losses by renting them itself...