Word: design
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...learning, instead I have come to a much different plane of learning. Not of God, and teachings of the higher being, mind you; my moral reasoning requirement remains, at this writing, forlornly unfulfilled. Nor have I come to understand in my heart the clocklike precision and sweeping grandeur of design that marks the natural world. The cerulean dome that arcs above our mortal heads remains, as ever, a mystery to my soul and mind...
...neither aesthetics nor safety caused grave problems. The library persuaded Paul Dietrich, the architect who designed the station itself, to design the bookcase at no cost. The library then paid for the materials and labor needed to build the shelves. "The designer knew what he was doing," said Carbona. "He put the shelf in the right location, and it looks beautiful...
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...done it before. In 1984 he called a proposed design for a new wing of the National Gallery a "monstrous carbuncle on the face of a much loved friend." In the same speech he characterized a planned Mies van der Rohe office building in London's financial district as a "glass stump." Opening a factory last May, he likened the new building to a Victorian prison -- to the delight of the workers, if not of management. But last week Prince Charles swapped his sniper's rifle for a shotgun and took his broadest aim yet at Britain's architects...
...collection. Stirling created a well- proportioned and handsome set of viewing rooms with a crisply formal yet amusing exterior, highlighted by a cutaway pediment entrance. As for the National Gallery, after several abortive efforts, including the "carbuncle" debacle, it has settled for restraint: a safe, classically modern stone-faced design by American Architect Robert Venturi for its much needed $63 million extension...