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When Biochemistry achieved department status in 1967, it commissioned renowned architect Marcel Breuer to design a structure for the department. Breuer's plans called for a building fully twice as large as the Fairchild structure...
Melissa is a marine biologist who has become sexually involved with a dolphin named Peter. Jeffrey, Melissa's human lover, has given up a promising career as an architect to teach fifth-graders in the New York City public school system; he thinks of his students as "a kind of early warning system for what's next in the world." Meanwhile, their friend Nicole feels glum over the prospect of another abortion, her sixth. She would like to have the baby and marry Diego, her Cuban lover, but doing so would cause her father to revoke...
Graham Greene's architect Querry had to trek to an African leprosarium to find a metaphor adequate to express his mood; nothing less would be sufficiently wasted, blighted, defunct. Querry was, Greene meant, A Burnt-Out Case, like the leper Deo Gratias, his soul far gone. He was a masterpiece of acedia, a skull full of ashes, a rhapsodist of his own desolation...
...preliminary blueprints for University Place reflect the University's new concerns. David Vickery, director of the city's community development department, said the architects "have done a beautiful job of making a transition" between University Place and one- to three-family dwellings in the area. On Mt. Auburn St., about 85 condominiums are proposed in a group of low density buildings no more than 80 feet high. Three office buildings planned for University Rd. will have a total of 200,000 square feet of floor space, but will be no more than six stories tall. All of the buildings will...
DIED. Albert Speer, 76, Adolf Hitler's master builder, a brilliant architect who, as Minister of Armaments and War Production, was one of the most powerful men in Nazi Germany; of a cerebral hemorrhage; in London. Starting in 1934, Speer built Nazi Party headquarters in Munich and the chancellery in Berlin and orchestrated Hitler's spectacular mass rallies at the stadium in Nuremberg. For his use of slave labor as head of war production from 1942 to 1945, he was sentenced in 1946 to 20 years in prison at the Nuremberg war-crimes trials...