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Many a tradition-minded Athenian, knowing Gropius only as the high priest of modernism, with its flat roofs, ribbon windows, concrete, steel and glass functionalism, promptly got set to dislike what he suspected was coming. Last week plans for the building were outlined, and the pessimists were pleasantly surprised...
...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 between Mount Hymmittos and pine-covered Lycabettus Hill. At a press conference in Athens, Gropius calmed the remaining fears. "Athens is a sacred place," he said. "We did our best to connect the city's traditions with our own architectural concepts. But keeping the tradition does not mean to imitate...
...Free Man." To gain Athenian dignity, Gropius ringed the three-story structure with tall, reinforced concrete columns, visible girders and horizontal ribbons, sheathed all of them in strips of the gleaming white Pentelic marble used in the Parthenon. This design forms a 20-ft. cantilever which serves as a sunbreak, reminiscent of the massive Greek porticos. The first floor has a screen of sky-blue ceramic tile; the upper two stories have a curtain wall of grey glass spandrels hung from the roof girders. For added elegance, the interior court will be ringed with columns of Pentelic marble, the base...
...Sour Note. Last week the newly reconstructed Stoa of Attalus stood completed, its 92 marble pillars gleaming with unaccustomed whiteness beneath the clear blue Athenian sky. A bevy of American and Greek scholars, statesmen and other dignitaries, including King Paul and his pert, pretty Queen Frederika, gathered at the site to dedicate the rebuilt remembrance of the past. And in all the polite and grateful words spoken, there was only one sour note. Greek Professor Anastasios Orlandos, his nation's highest authority on ancient monuments, was unable to attend, but he sent a note of dissent...
...Athenian authorities ordered a marble plaque put up renaming the Athens street fronting the British embassy "Karaolis-Demetriou Street." A Cretan merchant offered a $300,000 reward for Sir John Harding's head, to match Harding's offer of $30,000 for information leading to the capture of Colonel George Grivas, the British-trained ex-Greek army officer reputed to head EOKA...