Word: architecting
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...After the GSD leaves, Robinson will have to be renovated before we can inhabit the hall," Bailyn said, "Although an architect has been hired for the job, we're not sure how long it will take. It could run on into the fall...
...solve this problem, a bright Brazilian architect has designed a 39-story, $14.5 million skyscraper cemetery, which will be privately financed and under construction by January...
...will offer 21,000 tombs, each of which will have two separate shelves for bodies and five ossuaries (which will hold solid remains after bodies decompose). Thus, says the architect, "up to seven in a family are assured of being together." Eventual capacity of the building will...
...roof of the vertical mortuary will be a heliport, so that bodies can be flown in quickly from outlying areas. There will be an eight-story garage for visitors, two churches and 21 chapels. Each of the latter has a bed for grieving friends and relatives. Explains Architect Dy-lardo Silva e Souza: "Who wants to spend the night in the kind of cemetery we have now?" Another feature: soothing but somber background music, 24 hours a day. "We can't play sambas in a place like this," says Silva e Souza...
...Architect Sherman Morss of Shepley, Bulfinch Richardson, and Abbott paid meticulous attention to details to make this floating cube the Rolls Royce of collegiate boating facilities The fully heated building has a committee protest and reception room, a complete shop that can handle all repairs necessary on the fleet a kitchen and complete bathroom facilities (including shower) for both men and women...