Word: architects
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...task force--composed of Monacelli, as architect for Kanavos and a neighborhood architect--had been working on modifying the proposed hotel structure for two weeks. Kanavos halted the hotel construction for the duration of the architectural study, but the developer is expected to resume building as soon as a design is chosen...
Family reunions are curiously without tears. A university student in a pinstriped suit awaits his father, a well-to-do Ugandan architect who will probably not qualify to practice in England. What are his emotions about this turn in the family's fortunes? "It's a bloody inconvenience," he replies. Adds a restaurant owner from Kampala: "There is no big problem. You only have to begin from scratch, work and earn, and slowly, slowly everything will be all right...
...hardship run through all his early work. For Böll, West Germany's postwar economic boom drowned out the moral voice of his country's guilty conscience. In 1959 he published Billiards at Half-Past Nine, a family chronicle in which the founding father is an architect who builds a famous religious shrine. Near the end of the war, his son, a demolitions expert, blows up the shrine unnecessarily because he is sick of the church's tolerance of the Nazis and disgusted by those who care more about the survival of their landmark than about...
...accommodate 60,000 worshipers. The steel, aluminum and concrete structure, embellished with rare marble inside, drew fire from some disconcerted critics, who think it spoils the austere prospect of Fuji. But the critics can scarcely wish it away. The shrine is built to withstand the strongest earthquakes, and Architect Kimio Yokoyama placidly expects it to be good for at least 2,000 years...
Married. Art Garfunkel, 30. singer and songwriter once teamed with Paul Simon and now an actor (Carnal Knowledge); and Linda Marie Grossman, 27, an architect; both for the first time; in Nashville, Tenn...