Word: brickes
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Saturday night, the giant, orange brick building at Des Plaines, Ill., sounds like an axle factory on overtime. In fact, though its name is the Axle, the place is a roller rink, one of hundreds of new skating palaces that are riding a revival of the sport reminiscent of its Gay Nineties' heyday...
...work featured the use of stark, geometric shapes and an emphasis on natural light and the moods created by it. He also incorporated such traditionally concealed "servant" elements as ducts, pipes and storage space into visible design. Slight and white-haired, with a poetic regard for his materials ("A brick is happy when it is an arch"), Kahn was best known for the Salk Institute complex in La Jolla, Calif., and for his recently completed Kimbell Art Museum in Fort Worth. He also designed the capital buildings in Dacca, Bangladesh...
...years I was based in London directing the Academy. I resigned two years ago; I though 18 years was quite long enough to be in any one place and remain even remotely creative. So I though that, before I became part of the brick work, I'd better get out. So to everybody's surprise, I did. Now I'm just sort of free-wheeling around the world...
Beginning in 1965 with a brick and tile company that had been rapidly deteriorating, Fuqua Industries has grown quickly with the acquisition of many other firms...
...Murphy was picked up in a car outside his two-story brick home in the Druid Hills section of Atlanta by a heavy-set white man, ostensibly for a visit to the man's attorney for more discussion about the oil. Instead, once Murphy was in the car, the mysterious "benefactor" pulled a gun and announced: "Mr. Murphy, you have been kidnaped...