Word: architects
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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John H. Andrews, the Canadian architect of Ontario's controversial Scarborough College building complex, will design George Gund Hall, the new center for the Graduate School of Design...
...drive that began in 1960 to rehabilitate the Auditorium was Mrs. John V. Spachner, a tenacious and seasoned Chicago fund raiser. Undaunted by an earlier estimate that had pegged the cost of restoration at $4,000,000, Bea Spachner enlisted the aid of an enthusiastic Louis Sullivan fan, Architect Harry Weese, 52. Weese resurveyed the building, reported that it could be brought back to mint condition for only $2,250,000, and volunteered to donate his services...
...Center for the Performing Arts, an equal sum for the new Los Angeles County Museum of Art; he also endowed the Ahmanson Center for Biological Research at the University of Southern California. Last month he announced plans for a 40-story office block on Wilshire Boulevard designed by Manhattan Architect Edward Durell Stone. With two marble-clad, ten-story outriders, the Ahmanson Center will cost $75 'million. Though some of his competitors like to wisecrack about his "edifice complex," Ahmanson is widely admired among S. & L. men. "We may be jealous, but we can't be critical," says...
...Once the architect is chosen for Gund Hall, the Faculty of Arts and Sciences will be forced to grapple with the future of Robinson and Hunt Halls, which currently house the Design School...
Harvard has already decided not to cover the outside of the House with an experimental tile finish, as had been proposed by Jean-Paul Carlhian, the architect. It decided last Spring to use pre-cast concrete instead, effecting a savings...