Word: architecturales
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Sweeping into the distinguished visitors' gallery of Britain's House of Lords, high-spirited Cinemactress Vivien Leigh listened impatiently to debate on the proposed demolition of London's 122-year-old St. James's Theatre (which Actress Leigh had protested two days before by marching down...
Died. Arthur Brown Jr., 83, topflight architect, longtime official consultant on architectural work in Washington, D.C., who served as chairman of the architectural commission for the Golden Gate International Exposition (1939-40), designed San Francisco's City Hall, Opera House and Coit Memorial Tower (atop Telegraph Hill); in Burlingame...
The U.S. Department of State had a commission to challenge any architect: 1) build a million-dollar U.S. embassy in Athens just one mile from the Parthenon, 2) make it a showcase of U.S. modern architecture, but let it be classical enough to fit its surroundings, 3) give it a...
"A Sacred Place." Gropius' T.A.C. had designed a building (to be started this fall) that will be Athenian in feeling, elegant in proportion and yet modern in design. It will stand on a 66,000-sq.-ft., $500,000 site (donated by the Greek government) on Vassilissis Sofias Street...
Complete Harmony. Many of the sins attributed to the Victorian architectural era (1837-76), says Maass, were committed when the U.S. began to copy older forms of architecture rather than following the Victorian principle of developing a style with only inspiration from abroad. Among the best examples of real Victorian...