Word: designate
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...world is Lower Manhattan beheld from the Staten Island ferry in early morning, when even ghastly buildings like those of the World Trade Center look good." Hughes lives happily in a 2,300-sq.-ft. loft-his "plywood palazzo"-but, when pressed, he picks the man to design his dream house: New York's Richard Meier, whose work he analyzes in this week's story. And Hughes would have Cover Subject Philip Johnson whip up a "gazebo-cum-study...
...supergraphics as by walls. Moore's latest project, with which he is "thrilled," is really a stage set. The Piazza d'ltalia fountain in New Orleans was commissioned as a celebratory space for the local Italian community. Moore dismissed all thought of "unitary" Tuscan directness and produced a razzmatazz design, a caprice resembling the gaudy, papier-mâché fair sets of Sicilian festa decor: fragments of Roman and Renaissance buildings around an 80-ft.-long stone map of Italy, like the masterpiece of a megalomaniac pastry cook. A fountain spurts out of Moore's Sicily, and its water runs down...
Although almost 95 per cent of Harvard's work to prepare the architectural design for the new Reza Shah Kabir University (RSKU) is complete, the Iranian government cannot pay the outstanding sums needed to finish, Harold L. Goyette, director of the Planning Office, said yesterday...
...people, increasingly a factor in stability both in its region and in the world as a whole-a China that is strong and secure-that is a China we would like to see. We do not see cooperation among China, the U.S., Western Europe and Japan as a hostile design against the Soviets. In different ways and on different issues, this same cooperation should also involve the Soviet Union. We see no fundamental incompatibility between a better relationship with China and a better relationship with the Soviet Union...
...utility and telephone companies. Also advertising agencies and public relations firms, motor coach services, audiovisual equipment companies, duplicating and distribution services, auto rental and leasing, charter bus services and sightseeing tours, commercial and industrial equipment leasing, costume rentals and sales, court reporters and stenographers, entertainment booking and productions, exhibit design decorators, medical and first aid services, models, hostesses and talent services, photographers and, of course, hookers...