Word: circularity
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Even better, the planners have made the new airports into more pleasant places for air travelers-and shortened the long voyage home as well. At the $250 million Kansas City International, which was dedicated last month, Architects Kivett and Myers designed three almost circular terminals, with as many as 19 gates each, and laid out a fourth circle for future expansion. In effect, they are planned like the simplest (and oldest) airports, with planes on one side of the building, ticket counters practically on top of the gate and parking spaces at the front door. Instead of long hikes from...
Whale White. Later, in paintings like Blue Ball series-Untitled, 1961, the diaphanous mists and blots of color were abolished in favor of a snowy white field on which dense blue circular shapes were deployed; later still, the series that included Untitled, 1970, pushed the activity of color from the center of the canvas altogether, leaving the white void itself as the subject, speckled and edged with exquisitely laced drifts of color that Francis blurred, wet into wet, in imitation of Japanese sumi ink painting...
Despite its somewhat circular organization and the author's cloying habit of referring to the composer as "the Master," Music at the Close is clearly an indispensable and humane book for Stravinskyites. All the uproar aside, for instance, where else could a fan learn that Stravinsky was so fond of avocados that his wife Vera invariably carried two or three ripening examples in her purse when they traveled...
...fourth part of the building is a semi-circular lecture hall section, containing four theatres ranging in size from 150 seats to 500 seats. The lecture halls will be outfitted with expensive and elaborate audio-visual equipment. The most distinctive feature of the lecture wing is the "spider leg" supports which hold the roof aloft. The spider legs are nine bent steel trusses that emanate from the center of the semicircle. They will be left uncovered and allowed to rest until a thick cover of reddish oxides is formed...
...center of the building was going to be decorated with art works: The terraces of the office wing were suppose to have been adorned with plants "sort of like hanging gardens," Sert says. Sert had also hoped to have an outdoor amphitheatre on the roof of the semi-circular lecture hall section. The building's two courtyards were going to be sculpture gardens. "Unfortunately, the parts of the building that were supposed to be given to the arts were the first to be cut out," Sert noted...