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Word: dinkeloo (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
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...André Meyer, an investment banker and longtime trustee, the galleries supply more than half an acre of floor space, topped by a vast glass-gridded ceiling that extends, free of supports, over the whole area. The galleries are part of the new southern wing, designed by Kevin Roche/John Dinkeloo, and the huge ceiling provides something almost unique in recent museum construction­natural light. Special glass on the roof above filters out the ultraviolet light that can damage pigment, while stainless-steel baffles scatter the sun's beams, which are further diffused by pebble-grained glass panels...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: The Met's New Galleries | 4/14/1980 | See Source »

...million complex is an unusually solid marriage between architect and artist. Theater Consultant Gordon Davidson, director of Los Angeles' Mark Taper Forum, worked on details for six years with Architects Kevin Roche and John Dinkeloo. The result of all that planning, says Artistic Director Edward Payson Call, can only be compared to a wonderful playpen for directors, who can use dramatic concepts impossible in many other places...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Architecture: A New Theater in the Rockies | 1/21/1980 | See Source »

...audiences, the most obvious pleasure is Roche and Dinkeloo's stunning design. Entering from the plaza, which the complex shares with the rest of the arts center, patrons come into a great glass tent, held up by concrete and steel girders. The effect is both dramatic and exhilarating. The sense of excitement is heightened as visitors walk up to a second level, which curves around the Stage and offers - smog permitting - views of the Rocky Mountains. The feeling is like that on the promenade of an ocean liner, and in warm weather doors will be opened to an outdoor...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Architecture: A New Theater in the Rockies | 1/21/1980 | See Source »

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