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Rooney explained that the concrete of modern buildings does not hold up to changing air temperatures as well as the brick and mortar of older buildings--such as the undergraduate Houses--because it cannot expand and contract as well...
...large development has been designated to fit in with the surrounding architecture, Friedman added. The buildings will be red brick, and $2 million of the $5 million profit from the land sale will be used to build a Kennedy Memorial Park along the edge of Memorial Drive...
...changes will primarily embellish the facade rather than modify the structure, John McKee, the architect for the project, said. The building will be brick with a granite base and limestone corners and sills over the windows, he added...
...overalls and chain-chews Tums in between smoking Pall Malls, and the effect of his great heft is stunning: he looks like a denim- wrapped redwood that somebody potted in brogans. What is more, he has a tongue that could not be stilled if you placed it under a brick. "I always wanted me a paper," he was saying the other day, discarding a half-formed opinion that contemporary chickens have no personalities. "I looked into buying one, but they all wanted a fortune. So I started one. I was so green, I thought paste-up was something...
Blank Wall is on its way to becoming the dominant feature of many United States downtowns," complains William H. Whyte, one of America's most astute observers of the urban scene. Without windows or adornment to relieve their monotony, the walls are built of concrete, brick, granite, metal veneer, opaque glass and mirrors. They cover up department stores and shopping malls, offices and civic buildings, convention centers and hotels. Designed out of fear-fear of the untidy hustle and bustle of city streets and "undesirables"-the walls spread fear. By eliminating the hospitable jumble of shop fronts, restaurant entrances...