Word: designs
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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This, in the minds of the competition judges who were deciding back in early 1957 on the design for a new Opera House, must have ruled against the pat solution of an International Style box. But nobody in the architectural profession, in or out of fe Australia, could have predicted what the judges finally selected from the 233 entries that had been submitted from 32 countries...
...worked none of that out; he did not, as he later remarked, expect to win. Utzon's victory, it is believed, was largely due to one of the judges, the late Eero Saarinen, whose own fondness for shell construction had been embodied a year before in his design...
...grand near metaphor, its unfolding shells echoing the billow of the spinnakers and jibs on the water below, its mat beige and glossy white tiles responding to every nuance of light in the sky. Scarcely a building in Sydney had any relationship to the harbor, but Utzon offered a design as close to its marine environment as the calcined wreathings and sea-cave fenestration of the Piazza San Marco are to the lagoon of Venice...
...found out that the pond is a town water source; every summer it is drained right down to its muddy bottom, and the state forbids swimming or boating at any time. The doctor is trying to unload the land. Another example: Ashley T. Murphy, a California builder, got design approval for a $9,000,000 apartment complex in Oceanside...
BERNARD WEISSBOURD, 51, lawyer turned iconoclastic developer. President of Chicago-based firm, Metropolitan Structures, which has $3.5 billion of work in progress, most of it notable for design quality. Included are new towns near Aurora, Ill., and Montreal, redevelopment in downtown Baltimore and a billion-dollar apartment-office-store complex near Chicago's Loop. Delights in challenging accepted notions. Example: favors replacing homeowners' income tax deductions for mortgage interest payments - a "regressive subsidy," he says - with direct subsidies from Washington...