Word: bunshaft
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Unhealthy Renaissance. "I believe in a disciplined approach based on intelligent planning," says Bunshaft. "Architecture is serving the needs of the people who are using the building. And something more, which is taking the materials and exploring and exploiting them to their maximum excitement. A bold idea, plus precision, care and thought, make a good building...
...Connecticut General plant, with its module of six feet carried throughout, its sweeping 470-ft. glass façade, cantilevered restaurant, airy, uncolumned work space, four tranquil yet exciting interior courts by Japanese Sculptor Isamu Noguchi, and separate executive block, is Bunshaft's bold merger of his principles with the company's needs...
Looking for a firm that could best "express the newest in materials and design," Connecticut General executives fanned out over the country, picked S.O.M.'s Gordon Bunshaft and William S. Brown, the team that had designed Manhattan's medal-winning Lever House (TIME, April 28, 1952) and Manufacturers Trust Co.'s Fifth Avenue branch (TIME,' Aug. 31, 1953). In crewcut, hard-driving Gordon Bunshaft, 48, the insurance company rapidly discovered it was dealing with a stubborn, topflight designer, with a no-nonsense approach. Architect Bunshaft, who keeps one eye cocked on Corbusier's concern with...
...problem faced by Designers Walter Netsch and Gordon Bunshaft, partners of Skidmore, Owings & Merrill, was to provide shelter and suitable surroundings for three services-Protestant, Catholic and Jewish-under one roof, and relate the chapel to the academy's other buildings and its majestic mountain backdrop. The solution is an ingenious example of contemporary Air Force Gothic. Rising tall and bright in its sheath of man-made aluminum against the surrounding peaks of the Rockies, the chapel stands in solitary splendor, its 19 spires soaring in contrast above the flat-roofed buildings spread out on the campus...
...memorial will be constructed of white translucent marble, so that when the pavilion is lighted inside at night the floor of the plaza will glow in the dark. The jury, including such topflight architects as Ludwig Mies van der Rohe, Gordon Bunshaft, Joseé Luis Sert and Pier Luigi Nervi, was enthusiastic about Knight's design. Said Mies: "It is a noble project and will be a noble memorial...