Word: architects
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Progression of Delights. Unquestionably, the plaza's most immediate triumph is its playground. Architect Simon Breines, who grew up playing stickball on the streets of Brooklyn, provided Riis Plaza children with a stupendous place to play. With Landscape Architect Paul Friedberg, he designed rough pyramids made of granite paving stones, over which kids clamber, shrieking as they go. Last week children were lining up to crawl into the stone igloo; once inside, they scrambled up a ladder through a hole in the top and, with a whoop, scooted down a slide kerplunk into a sand...
First, they say, the area around the Bennett St. Yards does not seem notably "blighted" and might not easily qualify as a renewal project. If the actual Bennett St. Yards were included in the project area, chances might be better. However, I. M. Pei, architect for the Library, does not favor putting his construction site under federal renewal laws...
Divorced. Edward Durell Stone, 64, architect of romantically grilled and colonnaded buildings (U.S. embassy in New Delhi, Huntington Hartford's Gallery of Modern Art in Manhattan): by Maria Torch Stone, 37, his flashy second wife; on grounds of incompatibility, after eleven years of marriage, two children, and 18 months of public spatting; in Juárez, Mexico...
...will probably be six to nine months after the site is chosen before the architect arrives at final plans. Thus, construction of the House could not possibly begin before the spring...
Representatives of the Beacon Construction Company, owners of the property, and of William E. Tabler '36, the architect, claim there is enough space in front to allow a building as large as they propose...