Word: bricks
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Dean was speaking at a ceremony in which he was awarded an honorary degree, and in which he opened a new Oxford University law library. The new library of buff brick, is of modernistic design, in contrast to the traditional stone of Oxford's other buildings...
Practical Romance. Elsewhere, Leibnitz and Newton were demonstrating man's command of his environment through advances in science. Sir Christopher Wren had surpassed romantic vision with brick and stone. Napoleon was soon to end forever Europe's old order. And in Venice, where romance had always been well salted with practicality, Canaletto's lucid art bridged the opposed worlds. He stands to this day, as it was said of his city, "between the morning and the evening lands...
...secretary at W.T. Phelan and Co. said yesterday that the brick crashing through the window sent glass flying all over the room and chipped a desk...
...River Cherwell, St. Catherine's low, flat roofs (maximum height: 30 ft.) blend with, rather than dominate, a horizon defined by trees (see opposite page). Only the high, spare bell tower-two planes joined by minimal struts-provides collegiate symbolism. Inside the grounds the pattern is yellow-beige brick (Jacobsen had several walls knocked down and laid again), sweeps of floor-to-ceiling glass and marble-smooth concrete beams-all interspersed with gardens, courts and a reflecting pool. The quadrangle is a rond-point of greensward offering a single, artfully off-centered tree...
Ruddy English. Churchill College at Cambridge, named for Sir Winston, is the work of British Architect Richard Sheppard, and the difference of nationalities shows (see overleaf). Sheppard's brick is ruddier, his concrete-cast in softwood forms-rustically textured. And there is less glass...