Word: architects
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Foreign Minister and nearly eleven in the Politburo, Gromyko is at the height of his power. Long respected and reviled as the Soviet Union's most dutiful diplomatic technician, he has become not only the custodian of Moscow's foreign policy but probably its chief architect...
Monaghan intends to rebuild the house as part of a Frank Lloyd Wright museum at Domino's Pizza new world headquarters on 300 semirural acres near Ann Arbor, Mich. He will be assisted by Architect-Builder David Henken, 68, a former Wright student who was in charge of putting up the house originally. Henken saved the fragments when earlier efforts to sell the house failed. He estimates that the reconstruction will cost...
...written and, worst of all, irrationally organized. Yet how else to find out which museum has the Raphaels and where they serve good veal? In a radical approach to the genre, a two-year-old Los Angeles publishing company named AccessPress Ltd. has, under the guidance of its founder, Architect-Cartographer Richard Saul Wurman, 49, reinvented the wheel with a series of compact volumes that open up cities through striking graphics, terse copy and a tight format...
That Juan Carlos is seen now as the architect of Spain's transition and has achieved such international recognition is mildly amazing, considering his enigmatic presence at the time of Franco's death. Opponents called him a puppet, a tin soldier. They chided him for walking well behind the 5 ft.-3 in, general so as not to embarrass him with his courtly 6 ft.-2 in. frame. He was once called "the son Franco never had." Wags named him "Juan the Brief" because his public statements were short and infrequent...
...exhibition space has now more than doubled, from 40,500 sq. ft. in the old building to 87,500 sq. ft. in the new. Circulation, conservation, storage, office space: all needed improvement and most have got it, at a total project cost of about $55 million. The appointed architect was Cesar Pelli, dean of the School of Architecture at Yale. Construction began...