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Like blisters rising on a sunburned skin, bubble buildings are popping up all over the landscape. An architectural curiosity only a decade ago, the air-supported, plastic bubbles are rapidly becoming a familiar sight, appearing−and sometimes disappearing−overnight amidst city skyscrapers, in suburban shopping centers and on...
The Affiliated Hospitals Center (AHC) will not announce its intentions for land use in the Mission Hill section of Roxbury until "more progress on the architectural plans is made," Richard D. Wittrup, Center Director, said yesterday.
The AHC has presented preliminary architectural drawings to the Boston Redevelopment Authority. The drawings, obtained through another source yesterday, show an expansion across and a closing off of Francis Street. The community has opposed such expansion for the past several years.
Despite a widespread uneasiness with modern technology's starkness, American architecture is beginning to break out of its self-imposed paralysis. The environment, Huxtable concludes in article after article, may still be saved. American architectural style, permitted to mature, may yet lead to its salvation.
Two decades later, with a change in architectural belief. Obsessed with the idea that everything in G and S has to be funny, they have transformed a soprano showpiece into a mindless burlesque. Barbara Menaker, as Mabel, goes along with the gag, and gives an adequate but useless performance.