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...officiate at its birth. In the first place, the $9,600,000 structure is not one building, but two. The theater core and lobby were designed by the late Eero Saarinen; the exterior, which serves as a library, is the work of Skidmore, Owings & Merrill's Gordon Bunshaft. "This is the least likely marriage I have envisioned," Saarinen wrote his staff. "But it might be very interesting. We can at least call it an affair...
Sets Overhead. The end of the affair did not come until Saarinen's premature death in 1961, but by then final plans were all but complete. Bunshaft, as Mr. Outside, had given the theater a mighty proscenium entrance with a towering concrete truss that spans 150 ft., yet rests on only two columns. Fronting it is a shimmering reflecting pool, set off by British Sculptor Henry Moore's Reclining Figure (see color...
...meld with the old-world architecture of the Palais Royale-yet he wanted a contemporary design. Finally, recalling his delight at seeing Manhattan's Lever House in 1952, the Yale-educated baron chose the U.S. firm of Skidmore, Owings and Merrill, whose partner in charge of design, Gordon Bunshaft, revolutionized the appearance of American banks with his glass and aluminum structure for the Manufacturers Hanover Trust Co.'s Fifth Avenue branch twelve years ago. Today it is business as usual at the new Banque Lambert, but in an airy edifice of concrete and glass (see color pages) that...
...idea," says Lambert, "was that this building should not only be an architectural landmark, but a cultural center as well." Though the Baroness Lambert died before it was completed, many of the art works are her choices. After S.O.M. designed interiors to enhance the paintings and sculptures, Bunshaft scurried about Europe in search of new acquisitions. From modest lithographs in the stenographers' offices to a massive Henry Moore sculpture in front of the bank, the collection now amounts to that of a middle-sized museum...
...they began traveling to meet each of the men they were considering for the job. Louis Kahn, whom Walton remembers as "leprechaunish," drew a plan of a platform stretching across Storrow Drive, with the library to be built atop the platform; Mies van der Rohe suggested a similar concept. Bunshaft, whose Beinecke at Yale was the only libray any of the architects submitted in their workbooks, was considered carefully. (When Walton and Mrs. Kennedy visited Yale to talk with Paul Rudolph they found that three of the seven men had buildings on the campus. None has a building at Harvard...