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Members of the Commission of Fine Arts winced some two months ago when the National Park Service presented its sketches for a new visitors' entrance to the White House. The building will house electronic detectors known as magnetometers to screen the roughly 1.5 million tourists who traipse through the...
Nor did Hardy ever have his Tess firsthand. As a young architectural draftsman specializing in church restoration, he courted Emma Gilford, a solicitor's daughter. It proved to be a mismatch worthy of one of his own plots. "What very strange marriages literary men seem to make," Fanny, the...
Gauri's analysis was prompted by the American Research Center in Egypt (ARCE) and the Egyptian Antiquities Organization (EAO). The agencies set out jointly in 1979 to clean and map the monument. The task of producing a detailed architectural chart of the Sphinx was taken on by Mark Lehner...
Later World's Fairs-St. Louis (1904), San Francisco (1915), Chicago (1933-34), New York (1939-40 and 1964-65), Brussels (1958), Montreal (1967) and Osaka, Japan (1970)-never achieved the cultural and architectural importance of those early ones. Both New York fairs were gaudy happenings that turned architecture...
Definite architectural and financial studies for future use of the fair site are not yet completed. The hope is that a big developer will turn the fair into a new, economically mixed, primarily residential community. New Orleans is watching closely.