Word: architects
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Satellite Chapels. The new Roman Catholic cathedral, already dubbed "Paddy's Wigwam," "The Rocket," "The Crown" and "The Pope Goes to the Moon," nonetheless provides both Catholics and architects with occasion for rejoicing. The winning design was selected in 1960 by a committee headed by Liverpool's archbishop, John Cardinal Heenan (now Archbishop of Westminster in London), from among 300 submitted. It turned out to have been executed by Congregationalist Frederick Gibberd, 59, the architect and city planner responsible for London's Heathrow Airport and the new town of Harlow...
...cathedral's electrically operated bells, named for the apostles Matthew, Mark, Luke and John, are separately housed in the 90-ft, freestanding bell tower that looms at the entrance. "I congratulate the architect on the excellence of his design," said Cardinal Heenan as the bells pealed on Whitsunday. "He spoke in a new language, but has not used any tricks which would embarrass those who will come later. This is authentic art, and it will be admired so long as men cherish beauty...
...role in redevelopment, Lee said that "the mayor educates and inspires the architect." He called New Haven a "gallery of great architecture...
Jean-Paul Carlhian, the architect for Mather, had hoped to make the exterior terra-cotta tiles attached to the concrete frame by steel hooks. The tiles would have been dark brown, giving Mather's 21 story tower and three low-rise sections a dark, glazed appearance...
...death of another banker in 1949 marked the Press's major step toward solvency and the capacity to undertake large projects. Waldron Phoenix Belknap, Jr., '20, banker, architect, and amateur scholar (American Colonial Printing: Materials for a History), bequeathed about a million dollars to the Press, to be used to publish "inaccessible or hitherto unpublished source material of interest in connection with the history, literature, art (including minor and useful art), commerce, customs and manners, or way of life of the Colonial and Federal periods of the United States...