Word: designs
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...idea should not be lightly dismissed as a science-fiction daydream. O'Neill has impressive credentials, among them his conception of the colliding-beam storage ring principle, which has been used in the design of some of the world's most powerful particle accelerators. His scheme for space colonies was recently the subject of a day-long scientific meeting in Princeton, and will soon be discussed at length in the journal Physics Today. Basically, O'Neill proposes building completely self-contained space communities in the form of cylinders some 16 miles long and four miles in diameter...
...severe misgivings have nonetheless arisen since the project was begun in 1968. Combined orders from the four customers have slipped from a planned 1,180 to 807-and could shrink more because of costly design compromises. The estimated cost of developing the plane was $1.8 billion. The British Labor government has resolved to review thoroughly the project with its West German and Italian partners before the next phase is authorized. But in British aviation circles at least, the plane is regarded as superior to such U.S. offerings as the F-15, F-14 and F5. Says a high R.A.F. officer...
Opposition to the library ranges from the argument that the design would not fit into the surroundings to the potential problems caused by the necessary parking accomodations for its visitors...
...original library plans contained provisions for an 85-foot glass pyramid and two 350-seat theaters. Pei eliminated the pyramid and the theaters, however, from the design last April...
...Center exhibition set up as a benefit for the New England Conservatory. The Carpenter Center show is made up of work by the students of Josef Albers, a man of squares who was a leader of the Bauhaus movement in Germany in the '30s and who directed the Yale design school in the '50s. One item from the exhibit is pictured on page one, and other exhibits range from watercolors to quilts to copporplate. Well worth seeing. Anita Briney