Word: architects
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Architect I. M. Pei, who will design the John F. Kennedy Memorial Library, explained in an interview last week why he wants to retain the option of having commercial buildings near the library...
...right of nearly 200 conservatives to prevent a vote on the declaration on religious liberty, even though more than 1,000 prelates petitioned him "most urgently" for approval. At the time, council progressives were horrified. As things have turned out now, even Jesuit John Courtney Murray, a principal architect of the declaration, agrees that the text before the fathers at the fourth session is stronger than ever (see box). "The losers won a delay," says Bishop Robert E. Tracy of Baton Rouge. "The winners won a document." Last week, in one of the strongest exchanges of views since the council...
...Pakistan's resentment led to an increasingly warm flirtation with Red China, it is still the only member-aside from Britain-of both the SEATO and CENTO alliances that anchor the Southeast Asian and Middle Eastern outposts of the free world's collective security system. As principal architect of that system, the U.S. is loath to see Pakistan wreck it by withdrawing in anger-particularly at a time when Charles de Gaulle threatens to wreck NATO...
Clear Victory. Architect Revell did not live to see his city hall completed, but the finished building has remained remarkably true to his original concept. Rising up from Toronto's mixture of old and new buildings, it has taken the shape of two curved towers (27 and 20 floors, respectively) that, like gigantic hands, cup the central civic plaza. There, standing like a champagne glass on a single stem, is the low city-council chamber and mayor's office. Beneath the complex is a four-level parking garage with space for 2,400 cars. Setting the center...
...architect's clear victory was in designing a unique complex that dominates the city's skyline, presenting a distinct, unforgettable image. "The whole thing is so unorthodox and individual, it grows on you like free sculpture," one architect confessed. "It will never get lost in all the redevelopment that will come to the area, and it won't be dwarfed by the giant buildings that will grow around it." But for many viewers, the closer they approach, the more questions get raised. The solid concrete and marble exteriors of the two office structures seem as forbidding...