Search Details

Word: baldachino (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first (reverse)


Usage:

...decorated with seven-story-high terra cotta pilasters, set against mirror glass and capped by what looks like the metal spout of a sugar box. Above the pilasters, on the front facade, is a five-story-high keystone that is topped off by what Graves calls a baldachino, a sort of lookout. On two sides the building is garnished with masonry garlands. At first these garlands were to be metallic fluttering-in-the-wind affairs, but the city council vetoed them as frills far too inviting for pigeons. Portland Mayor Francis Ivancie, an enthusiastic booster of Graves' design, persuaded...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Design: A Pied Piper of Hobbit Land | 8/23/1982 | See Source »

| 1 |