Word: designs
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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WHEN A NEW Japanese product comes onto the American market, its skillful design, its inexpensiveness, and its dubious durability are matched only by its clever advertising. Frank Gibney, the author of a forthcoming book, Japan, The Fragile Superpower, wrote recently that "the Japanese continue to maintain that a good Japanese can outsell Americans, outplan Frenchmen and Germans, and even 'handle' the Chinese." But the time for a philosophy of Mom, apple pie, and the transistor radio next door is gone. Japan is suffering from foreign economic pressures and its future is bleak, even on the everconsuming American market...
...change or cover up any of them. The sense of community he creates is so overwhelming that it assimilates everything into a harmonious whole, like the way gothic and romanesque arches are set into the fabric of the town's renaissance church--contributing to the structure, absorbed into the design, yet retaining their own shape for those who care...
Many residents of Cambridge feel that the Library complex is another obstruction between the Cambridge community and the Charles River. Although the revised design with the walk-through Commonwealth Plaza placated some fears, many still feel that traffic and people which would accompany the Library would discourage residents from using the riverbanks...
...visit the Square some conclusions can be drawn as to the impacts resulting from the construction of the Library. Subjective analysis of the empirical data presented throughout this statement reveals that the circulation, use characteristics and physical amenities of Harvard Square will not be significantly altered. The Library's design and program fit into the surroundings better than any of the other reasonable alternative uses of the site except for use by Harvard for University expansion. The incremental increase (except on Sundays) to pedestrian and vehicle circulation volumes will be so small that it is improbable that they will impact...
...major but every effort should be made to minimize them. Possible approaches include: encourage visitors to travel by subway; provide carefully conceived street signing to minimize unnecessary "lost" traffic; shuttle and tour buses should be as quiet as possible with direct routing avoiding particularly noise sensitive areas; design and construct the building mechanical systems to prevent excessive noise; construction specifications to prevent excessive noise, particularly from pile driving...