Word: architects
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...development, to be called Waterside, has for five years been trying to make headway, has encountered every imaginable obstacle in the process. "This has been dead a hundred times," says Architect Davis. What made the difference was backing from the top; both Housing and Development Administrator Jason Nathan and Mayor John Lindsay decided that it was time to get Waterside under...
Donald J. Eberly, architect of the most detailed prospectus for the volunteer program, proposes construction of a network of National Service Summer Camps. At 17 or 18, immediately following high school, men and women would collect at these camps for several months of service work and counselling on the possibilities of college or continued volunteer service...
When New Mexico-born Architect Willard Carl Kruger was first selected to design a new state capitol, he proposed that it should be "monumental pueblo...
True, walls slanted like adobe slabs, windows were kept to narrow slits and the roof was flat. But Architect Kruger had proposed making a trim, circular building that resembled a massive beveled cogwheel. To historical buffs, it looked altogether too modern...
...interior, Architect Kruger was able to keep to his original elegant scheme. Fan-shaped legislative halls open onto a 60-ft.-high rotunda. Doors to dangerous service areas have abrasive-covered handles to warn the blind, and the Governor has a telephoto peephole to survey his anteroom. As for visitors who may want to know what an authentic Southwestern government house would look like, Santa Feans can still proudly point to the nearby 1610 Palace of the Governors, the oldest capitol in the U.S., a one-story Spanish colonial adobe structure that is the cornerstone of New Mexican style...