Word: architects
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...building itself-where Herbert Hoover watched the first television demonstration, Jascha Heifetz recorded on one of the first "primitive" hi-fi systems, and Sam Warner made the first "talkie"-is peculiarly suitable, with its 10-ft. to 16-ft. ceilings, a cafeteria and an auditorium, all features that Architect Richard Meier hopes to preserve in the ren ovation. Tenants, to be screened by a citizens' committee, will be able to rent units at approximately $110 a month...
...20th century may be an age of reinforced concrete, steel, aluminum and glass. But when it comes to city planning, architects can only express admiration for the grand design for Washington, D.C., as it was originally laid down by France's Pierre Charles L'Enfant in 1791. No architect affirms this more staunchly than San Francisco's Nathaniel Owings, senior member of Skidmore, Owings & Merrill. He has good reason to: he is chairman of the President's Temporary Commission on Pennsylvania Avenue and is also responsible for drafting a master plan for developing the mile-long...
...giving a moatlike effect). Windows will be small, for security reasons, while on the E Street side the building is to be dominated by eight columns, with a two-story ring of offices joining them at the top-to hold the FBI's active security files. Explains Murphy Architect Stanley Gladych: "It is a strong, severe building, like a fortress. We tried to convey a sense of mystery about the organization...
Saving the Vista. Fronting on the Mall itself, adjacent to the Smithsonian and diagonally across from the National Gallery of Art, will rise the $15 million Joseph H. Hirshhorn Museum for the $25450 million Hirshhorn gift of sculpture and paintings. Architect Gordon Bunshaft has designed a massive doughnut, to be clad in marble, as sculptural as any created by Isamu Noguchi and so vast that Frank Lloyd Wright's Guggenheim Museum would drop neatly into the hole. The new five-level museum will add a revolution ary new presence, from its coffered concrete underside (the museum will actually "float...
...architect who drew a sketch of the pocket park in front of Holyoke Center populated it with clean-cut collegiates strolling briskly to some important engagement. He clearly did not foresee that the park would be taken over by sedentary hippies mulling over the virtues of tuning in, turning on, and dropping...