Word: architecting
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...motel's architect was not dismayed by this turn of events. He continued to refine his skyscraper design, which he said would "blend in very well with the architecture of Harvard Square...
...left many of Big John's audiences a bit heavy-lidded by the end of the evening, but by and large, Republicans seem enthusiastic about their newest convert. "The people I talked to before the meeting were skeptical because he's a short-term Republican," said Architect Richard Peters of Lawrence, Kans. "But they're damned glad now that he's a Republican...
...year delay wreaked havoc on the Library Corporation's original goals. The general inflationary trend, combined with the skyrocketing increase in building costs, whittled the $27 million project to half its original size. Architect I.M. Pei designed a museum sheltered under an 85-foot high truncated glass pyramid, attached to a five-story semicircle housing the actual archives, the Kennedy Institute of Politics and the Kennedy School of Government...
...where the unemployment has reached the level that I have mentioned. Young people must understand, then, that they are facing these facts and they must contribute to the modifying of material conditions in order not to have joblessness among the educated. We cannot have professionals with the degree of architect who do not build housing, or physicians who cannot attend the sick because the sick have no money with which to pay them. What we need are more physicians to defend human capital, which is worth more in our countries...
...Danish architect, who drew his sketches without visiting Australia, was struck by photographs of the dark landscape and tangled foreshore scrub: "There is no white here to take the sun and make it dazzle the eyes-not like the Mediterranean or South America. So I had white in mind when I designed the Opera House. The final effect will at times resemble what we call Alpengluhen [alpenglow], the color you get on snowcapped mountains when the sun is setting, the beautiful pink and violet reflections from the combination of mat snow and shiny ice." The bouquet of shells, holding...