Word: architects
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...purpose of building a sidewalk cafe at the east end of Central Park South, near Fifth Avenue. Every relevant department of the city accepted the gift. I deposited over $800,000 with the city, as good faith, where it remained until recently without earning interest. I paid an architect fee of over $100,000 to Edward Stone...
Thus the museum is two different experiences: monumental on the outside and functional, well-lighted and roomy on the inside. This is precisely what Architect Breuer had hoped for. "A museum in Manhattan," he said, "should not look like a business or office building. Its form and material should have identity and weight in the dynamic jungle of our colorful city...
Died. Hubert Eaton, 85, founder of Forest Lawn cemetery and early architect of the American way of death: after a long illness; in Beverly Hills (see MODERN LIVING...
...equally senseless to try to find the culprits for the Met's failings. Perhaps one is architect Wallace K. Harrison. Perhaps a gaggle of interior decorators are to blame. Or maybe we should accuse the board of bankers, who have a tendency to raise thousands of dollars and then spoil everything by adding their own two cents...
...announcing the gift last week, Architect William Hartmann, a partner in Skidmore, Owings & Merrill, one of the three firms involved in designing the civic center, revealed that Picasso's design will be executed in ever-rusting Cor-ten steel, the same material as the 31-story building. "This is not a cast that bears the thumbprint of the artist," said Hartmann. "Picasso created some thing that has to be constructed like a building." To do so will cost $300,000, a tab to be assumed by three private foundations. If all goes well, the sculpture will be installed...