Word: designate
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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None the worse for wear after three days of greeting some 1,500 social belles at Britain's last palace debutante presentation, Queen Elizabeth II, stunningly garbed in a pale pink satin frock embroidered in a design of roses, and Prince Philip happily returned to less arduous royal duties as they attended the world premiere of the British film Dunkirk at a London theater...
Willows in the Amphitheatre. It was the note of exuberance and freshness in Stone's latest work that convinced the American Institute of Architects committee, charged with finding an architect for the U.S. State Department, that Stone was the man to design the Brussels pavilion. When he first visited the site two years ago, it was little more than a grassy, willow-studded park, staked out in a triangular plot, between the areas reserved for Vatican City and the U.S.S.R. Characteristically, he began sketching his design on the spot, seized on the site's natural amphitheater contours...
Effective Elixir. Maria's elixir had an instantaneous effect. They were married on June 24, 1954 in Beirut, while Stone was putting the finishing touches on his design for the $5,000,000 Hotel Phoenicia. Three days later, Stone lounged in his bathrobe on a balcony of the St. George Hotel, took a long look at the blue Mediterranean and the snow-capped mountains of Lebanon, and began his first sketch for the U.S. New Delhi embassy, a commission he had received from the U.S. State Department three months before. The sketch (see cut), done quickly on the corner...
...Maria." The reaction to Stone's design for New Delhi was a rousing cheer that rolled the full range of the architectural profession, from Mies van der Rohe purists to Frank Lloyd Wright ("The only embassy that does credit to the United States"). Said one U.S. architect, just back from India: "The effect is of the Parthenon, with the pierced marble screen of Delhi's Red Fort and the white of the Taj Mahal. In the sun it's going to tell a terrific story." Cracked Frank Lloyd Wright: "Why not call it Taj Maria...
Stone's first opportunity to try out his theory in the U.S. came when he got the commission to draw the plans for the $19 million Palo Alto-Stanford Hospital and Stanford Medical Center. From his experience in designing the just completed $20 million Social Security Hospital for Employees (one of the world's largest) in Lima, Peru and his University of Arkansas Medical Center (which won an American Institute of Architects Honor Award in 1952), Stone knew a hospital is "the toughest problem in architecture. It's as if every room were either a kitchen...