Word: architecturale
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In the past, American cities have too often resolved similar dilemmas by yielding to profit and "progress." The gain in revenue is canceled out by a loss of urban vitality. Some of the diversity, historic continuity and character of a city is destroyed when old buildings are razed. Character attracts...
Charles Luckman, Lever Bros.' president from 1946 to 1950, and an architect, felt strongly that the era needed an architectural expression. He commissioned Gordon Bunshaft of Skidmore, Owings & Merrill to find it for Lever's new headquarters on Park Avenue between East 53rd and East 54th streets. The...
I do not care for the new Philip A. Hart Senate Office Building [Jan. 17]. But I now understand from your critique the architectural rationale behind the stark, costly structure.
If Jobs is deft at dealing with his peers and elders in commerce, a comforting combination of overnight plutocrat and shill for a new gold rush, he is positively hypnotic when he takes the computer gospel to the young. Jobs is youthful enough to fit right in and both bright...
The interior has two great faults. The main galleries, with their rhetorically high ceilings and towering walls of bushhammered concrete ("soaring" is the requisite adjective here), completely dwarf the paintings, turning Jackson Pollock's Blue Poles into a little silvery postage stamp. Worse, no role is played by Canberra...