Word: designs
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Hanslin's ideas will work to create a community remains to be proved, but a staff of enthusiastic young architects and planners are putting in long hours to see that they do. Having organized Eastman, they now are at work in a former warehouse in Manchester, N.H., to design Hanslin's next project, at a still secret location. On a long table stand flats of organically grown bean sprouts. Even more striking are wall charts tracing the development of dozens of bygone religious and idealistic communities, the failures as well as the successes. Each detail of their...
...channel more federal money into research for harnessing thermonuclear fusion and building plants at mines that would produce gas by burning coal. Home builders will surely have to put more insulation into new houses and apartments, raising immediate costs to buyers and renters. Detroit may well have to design much smaller and lower-powered cars. The ERA'S Ruckelshaus has raised the possibility of increasing the four-cent-a-gallon tax on gasoline and setting limits on auto-engine horsepower...
Died. Andrei N. Tupolev, 84, grand old man of Soviet aviation and developer of the TU-144, SST rival to the British-French Concorde; of heart disease; in Moscow. A quiet, portly intellectual, Tupolev predicted in 1922 that aviation's future lay in all-metal planes, then began designing almost one a year. Despite his productivity and a long list of aviation records, his defense of a friend during purges of the 1930s earned him Stalin's wrath-and a five-year stay in prison. Released during World War II, Tupolev achieved one of his greatest technical triumphs...
...committee acknowledges that the GSD will submit a substantial amount of supporting evidence in confidence, Hartman said. He said the decision means the Design School "can plead confidentiality almost, at will; which structurally biases the preceding enormously...
...fall the Neighborhood Ten, a local civic group, protested that the hotel design did not fit in with the surrounding area. They particularly objected to the height of the building and the design of the facade facing the neighborhood. The new design alleviates those problems...