Word: designs
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Fort Sill, Okla., Fort Hood, Texas, and Fort Carson, Colo. Three other posts will start on new quarters this year, and 15 more are slated for barracks renewal in 1974. Comments Army Chief of Staff General Creighton Abrams, who undoubtedly has known drabber digs: "It is a splendid design. It is admirably suited to both male and female soldiers and will make their lives better, happier and healthier." Which raises the question of whether co-ed dorms are next for The Modern Volunteer Army...
...easy to design a building for the Yard, since it is an almost sacred area for anyone even remotely connected with Harvard, and disrupting its austere appearance would be akin to heresy. When Lamont Library was built in 1947, the public was assured that it would solve Harvard's library space problems and would not disrupt the Yard. "With a steel frame and a brick exterior, the new library will outwardly preserve the conservative architecture of the Yard, while the interior will be of modernistic design," the Crimson wrote on June...
...September 1971, the University commissioned the Cambridge architectural firm Hugh Stubbins and Associates to do the site study for the library. Stubbins had designed three previous Harvard buildings: the Loeb Drama Center and two Medical School buildings--the Countway Library and the New England Regional Primate Center--as well as several college libraries. He had been among the final candidates for the Science Center design contract...
STUBBINS' SITE study apparently satisfied Bok and the Library officials, because they rehired him in the spring of 1972--after interviewing several other firms--to fully design the library...
Stubbins submitted his final design of the library in February of this year. Bok was scheduled to approve the design on February 20, but decided to delay his approval a week. The reasons for the postponement were not revealed; Bok would only say that he "wanted to look into all the alternatives and serve aesthetic as well as functional needs," and would not specify what details of the design were in dispute...