Word: circularized
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From the Tower of Babel to the railroad roundhouse, men have always felt an almost romantic affection for circular buildings. Now, newly appreciated for form and function, round buildings are rising all over the U.S. and filling a variety of needs...
...Religion. Circular buildings are fitting for churches through their ability to focus worshipers' attention on a central event. The newest and perhaps most striking round church in the U.S.. the Church of the Priory of St. Mary and St. Louis, was consecrated this month near St. Louis. Designed by Gyo Obata, with engineering consultation from Italy's Pier Luigi Nervi, the church is a confection of thin concrete shells resembling nuns' coifs. tiered like a giant pudding mold. On top of the graceful central lantern is the slenderest of crosses. Says Joseph Cardinal Ritter, Archbishop...
...cost 7% less than a rectangular one of the same area, partly because there is less outside wall area and partly because plumbing, heating, ventilation and electrical conduits can be better concentrated in a central core. Patients' rooms are shaped like pie slices. Nurses like walking its circular corridors: "It's a kind of optical illusion-we can't see that long hallway stretching ahead." No illusion: a nurse's trip from service area to patient is only about 50 ft. as compared with an average of 90 ft. in standard hospital buildings. Another eye-catching...
...wall carpeting and TV-nowadays, they are just the beginning. Guests at the four su-permotels of the Aristocrat chain in Chicago hardly notice such conveniences when they are ensconced in the "Rogue Room"at the Essex Inn, which is decorated with paintings of nude ladies and boasts a circular bed surrounded by a curtain of beads, or in Room 908 in Ascot House, which is decorated in Japanese style and comes complete with kimonos for its occupants. Ascot House also has a sidewalk cafe and a Cafe French Market where patrons may munch such Continental delicacies as escargots...
...addition to a circular which described the stones and was shipped to museums and jewel dealers all over the country, the University museum has issued several other pamphlets to supplement the additional information...