Word: architecting
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...original structure came to be known as the Tombs because its architect used a pharaoh's tomb as his model. The present building, completed in 1941, was designed to hold 932 inmates. In 1970 there were 2,000. Now, with a population of only 530, conditions remain so appalling that the New York board of corrections began hearings last week to decide the gothic jail's fate. The most likely verdict now appears to be to destroy the Tombs. Its passing will not be mourned...
Harvard administrators and architect I.M. Pei met yesterday afternoon to review the specifications for the University building to adjoin the proposed John F. Kennedy Memorial Library...
...nearly two decades the monks led a quiet life. Refusing gifts, they worked at various occupations (physician, psychologist, architect, sculptor), often in nearby villages; they ran a printing press and cultivated their rich farm land. The brothers of Taizé took no formal vows, but pledged themselves to celibacy, community of goods (both property and talents), and "acceptance of authority." They dressed plainly, as laymen, donning their white wool robes only for communal worship. The community grew modestly, selecting only a few of the many who sought to join...
Diane K. McGuire, landscape architect in the Buildings and Grounds department; said Friday that her office has designed a "master plan" of landscape improvements for each of the Houses and the Yard...
...pyramid would be replaced by a lower-slung brick museum, community groups attacked the move as a "cosmetic" change. They said the alteration in the museum was designed only to save money without cutting down the square footage--or the scale--of the museum itself. In addition, critics claimed architect I.M. Pei's separation of the library complex into two buildings was a small concession to professors who did not want tourists tramping down their ivy-covered hallways...