Word: designs
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...special review panel appointed by John H. Corcoran, Cambridge City Manager, has begun to examine the basic design of the Library, concentrating especially on the parking and traffic situation, the tax-generating potential of the site, and the placement of the Memorial plaza...
...House Committee funds the society's initial investment; in others, the money may come from the Master's funds--but the House that will tolerate continued deficits is a rarity, and film societies without House backing are under even tighter constraint. GSD Films' arrangement with the School of Design requires it to be in the black at the end of each month, or shut down. At the end of the year, any profits must go into the school's scholarship fund...
Thomas S. Marvel, a visiting professor at the Graduate School of Design, added that the attitudes of people are a barrier to the implementation of technological solutions. "It's hard to get people to give up a technology that's familiar to them," he said...
...design probe comes on the heels of complaints by community members that the orientation of the memorial complex, which was designed by Pei to look out over the Charles, ignores the interests of the nearby neighborhoods and business districts...
Community members complained that the apartments formed a wall between the neighborhood and the memorial and did not properly integrate the City into the design...