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Overpowering Effect. Now completed except for landscaping and the interior of some floors, the Hancock Center will bring 8,000 new residents and office workers-plus 1,000,000 visitors a year-into a neighborhood that is already congested with cars and people. Some Chicagoans complain that the massive building...
But it is also shaping up as an eminently depressing place to live. Co-Op City is dense (200 people per acre). It is relentlessly ugly: its buildings are overbearing bullies of concrete and brick. Its layout is dreary and unimaginative. Right now, residents have to bus their kids to...
The model of Craig Hodgett's "Maxx," a modular pre-cast housing unit, is one answer to the very real need for cheap, mass-produced housing on a large scale. Yet he'll have to fight countless Societies for the Preservation of Anachronistic Architectural Techniques, not to mention the Bricklayers...
The atmosphere is invariably one of warmth, and the architectural scale is everywhere measured by human dimensions. Architect Ulrich Franzen is a master of the broken line and the ingratiating curve. Nothing is rigid and antiseptic. Masculinity and femininity thrust, parry, yield and wed in a superlative marriage of craft...
After nine months of work, Williams prepared a 100-page report outlining the problems of the Muscum and needs of the department. However, he stressed the fact that the architectural program is not yet finished and is still open to suggestion.