Word: architects
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Architect Frank Lloyd Wright, ensconced in Manhattan's Plaza Hotel, began to get things rolling last week for the building of his spiral-shaped Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum (TIME, Aug. 10). Sitting in his favorite suite in his favorite hotel, where he has been coming for 35 years, Wright busily dispatched lieutenants to make arrangements for a new Manhattan office he is setting up, admired an Oriental painting of marmosets he had just bought, talked to contractors about bids on the museum, and kept up a steady, easy flow of talk...
...totaling $2,400,000. The large valuation was customary practice because FHA estimated the value of the land, not on the purchase price, but on what the improved land would be worth after the apartment was built on it. Gross was also permitted to put in an architect's fee of 5% and a builder's fee of 5%, the customary amounts. Since he was able to get an architect for only 1% and was his own builder (thus got the builder's fee), he already had a big chunk of his profit. When he applied...
...Edifice Complex. The startling ten-story mosaic pattern is the latest work of Architect-Muralist Juan O'Gorman, a shy, hard-working artist of 49, who likes to keep trying for new ideas in expression...
...they got $13,846,000 in FHA-insured loans to put up the Shirley-Duke apartments in Alexandria, Va. To meet FHA requirements that the sponsor must have put in 10% of the estimated cost of the project, the builders reported that 1) they had spent $750,000 for architect's fees instead of the $63,000 they actually paid; 2) Gordon owned land valued at $84,725. although he had only a word-of-mouth agreement to get the land "if the negotiation went through"; 3) the entire tract of land was listed at a value...
From the nation's top golf courses Golf-Course Architect Robert Trent Jones has selected the 18 holes which, in his opinion, present the toughest challenge to the championship golfer. Jones's ideal course measures 7,375 yds., has a par 72. The Jones course...