Word: architects
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Architect Le Corbusier, who drives his 20-year-old Fiat at a nervous, bucking 15 m.p.h., treats traffic in Chandigarh like a dangerous beast. He has seven different types of roads criss-crossing his dream city like a waffle grid. There will be separate roads for children, for bicycles, pedestrians and cars. All fast, cross-city arteries are sunk 14 feet below ground level to hide the traffic and reduce noise, will have bridges for pedestrians to cross safely. Says Le Corbusier, peering happily through his thick spectacles: "The system will restore to the pedestrian the dignity and peace...
...Mall were defaced with iron scaffoldings, half of Westminster Square lay awash in cold rows of unpainted platforms and stands. But as if on signal last week, the curlers and mudpack came off, and London glowed with color and excitement. The official coronation decorations, designed by Sir Hugh Casson (architect of the Festival of Britain), were conceived with two objects in mind-to be regal (for the solemn occasion), yet gay (for the youth of the new Queen). Tiny roses glowed with plastic radiance from lampposts along St. James's, huge plumed brass helmets gave swagger to others...
...first time, when I have reached 70, things look safe for a while," said Architect Walter Gropius on his birthday last week. "At long last, I am beginning to build much more than was possible in the so often unsettled past. The coming years should be the happiest and best fulfilled of my entire life." After 34 years as one of architecture's greatest thinkers and teachers, Walter Gropius was starting what amounts to a brand-new career...
Back in Boston, Gropius is the leader of an eight-architect team at work on six modern schools for Massachusetts and New Hampshire; his team is also designing a radical, prismatic-shaped office building in Washington with windows that have what Gropius calls "eyebrows"-steel and glass louvers that push out horizontally as protection against the summer sun. And there are plans for modern housing developments that make Gropius' eyes light up with joy. His team of architects is designing two of them near Boston, one of 30 houses...
Economy. In East Toronto, Ont., the city's board of control, with its new hockey arena nearing completion, learned that the architect, ordered to reduce costs, had eliminated the building's ice-making plant...