Word: bricking
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Teamster Beck, who built the rambling brick residence on Seattle's exclusive Shore Drive some five years ago, insisted that the union was getting its money's worth. The house has three bedrooms and three baths on one floor, two two-car garages, a separate four-room apartment, a movie room with seats for 50 and two theater-sized projectors, a bathhouse, a heated tile swimming pool covering 1,000 square feet, and an ornamental stream with artificial rock waterfall, illuminated at night. Dave Beck feels that it is just the kind of place a labor leader should...
Fifty years ago, speakers at the first congress of the Baptist World Alliance pounded the rostrum in London's massive, red brick Royal Albert Hall, predicted that the Alliance's next meeting in London would find the world's 6,000,000 Baptists doubled in number, London's streets less congested, pubs banished and the Church of England separated from the state...
...were the key materials in Air Force blueprints, Democratic Congressman John Fogarty (onetime president of Rhode Island's Bricklayers Union No.1) roared: "Glass and metal are alien to American monumental design-even to European." Picking up his lead, spokesmen for pressure groups, including the Allied Masonry Council, representing brick, limestone and marble companies and for the Bricklayers, Masons and Plasterers' International Union of America, charged that the modern academy design was unAmerican, un-Christian and unaesthetic...
...Pentagon, Air Force officers answered that, at 1955 prices, it might cost four times the $126 million they have asked for their modern academy to build a new West Point or Annapolis with conventional stone and brick...
...Corbusier designed the exterior of the church to create what he called "an acoustic component in the domain of form." Then he designed one outer wall of the church as an outdoor backdrop for large pilgrimage ceremonies. By using old brick left over from the previous church, plus concrete, Le Corbusier priced the new chapel...