Word: cloister
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...shell-or crustacean cloister...
...relic of the monasteries that Henry VIII abolished in 1540, the Abbey is now called the Collegiate Church of St. Peter in Westminster. Serving also as a school, the Abbey has an adjacent cloister, a museum and a deanery. From its schoolchildren-including Dryden, Milne, John Gielgud and Peter Ustinov-have come seven Prime Ministers, ten archbishops and at least four convicted murderers...
...geared to outdoor living?golf and swimming particularly, and an old-fashioned barbecue is a week-end attraction. The atmosphere is more like that of a club than an ordinary resort since most of the guests return more than once. Social life centers around the main building, the Cloister, an expansive three-story building that is done in Spanish red-tile fashion. Though there is a band for dancing in the evenings, spirited nightlife is almost nonexistent. First-time guests at Sea Island usually take a room at the Cloister (summer rates $32-$49 a day double with meals...
...across the narrowest part of the nave toward an upper chapel, so that in effect the nave's long dimension becomes a transept, terminated east and west by smaller altars. Architect Michelucci has also departed from custom by en folding the narthex, or entrance portico, in a gentle cloister; the church swallows its own entrance. The whole is asymmetrical, forcing the worshiper into the relaxed mood Michelucci wanted. As he says, "This church is a little city in which men should meet and recognize in each other the common hope of finding each other again...
...stops appreciatively on the massive, floating box-and-cloister of Charles Luckman's United States pavilion, and disapprovingly on Bell Telephone's flying wing, which looks more like a big hunk of sedimentary rock than an airfoil. The three-acre building that houses General Motors' Futurama ends in one gigantic tail fin, which may be good as advertising but is ridiculous as architecture. The boldest structure at the fair is Architect Philip Johnson's New York State pavilion: 16 tremendous columns support an elliptical roof of colored plastics that is larger than a football field...