Word: architecting
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Architect William Pereira reckons incorrectly that the Pacific Mutual building in San Francisco will be the first high-rise office structure with openable windows to be built in the U.S. since World War II [March 6]. Many have been built with openable windows. The U.N. Secretariat building is one; completion date...
...tourney took place on Nesmith Lake, which was frozen solid 15 inches deep. Two hundred and thirty contestants teed it up on the nine hole course which had regulation cups dug six inches into the ice. In place of greens ice course architect Dale Antram substituted red carpets with all different textures and cuts. Braided oval proved to be the most demanding putting surface. The layout was dotted with discarded Christmas trees, which were plunked into...
...America building; the hollowed-out Embarcadero Hyatt Regency, its interior a modern evocation of a Babylonian hanging garden. Bay City boosters will soon have another unusual building to talk about. Construction has just begun on the 19-story Northern California headquarters of Pacific Mutual Life Insurance Co., which Architect William Pereira reckons is the first high-rise office structure with openable windows to be built in the U.S. since World...
...million dues-paying members) in Japan but has won converts and mounted shows from Moscow to Milan, Manhattan to Paris (where Sofu was made a chevalier of the Legion of Honor). Last week in Tokyo he formally opened his school's eleven-story headquarters building, designed by Japanese Architect Kenzo Tange. It overlooks the palace of Crown Prince Akihito, whose family has traditionally been a patron of the flower...
...worked as an architect during the Franco years, but Jose Maria Perez never felt that he had found the right blueprint for life. "I was in an interior exile," he grumbles. But when Spain moved into a more liberal era, Perez, under the pseudonym "Peridis," finally found his true calling: cartoonist. In Madrid's daily newspaper El Pais he regularly lampoons the pillars of the once untouchable Establishment-from King Carlos to Pope Paul. Some of Peridis' subjects-including both Premier Adolfo Suarez and Communist Party Chief Santiago Carillo-have even written prefaces to the cartoonist...