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...advantages are considerable. The 1.1 million-sq.-ft. colossus is not, to be sure, the kind of building to wrap your heart around. The surfeit of white Vermont marble is a bit intimidating. Yet the building fits politely between the clumsily classical Everett Dirksen Senate Office Building and the Federal and Queen Anne-style Sewall-Belmont House and garden, headquarters of the venerable National Woman's Party. The Hart Building's classically well-ordered, box-construction windows, reminiscent of Le Corbusier's famous brise-soleils, or sun screens, harmonize with the forest of Roman columns that flourishes...
...Capitol in 1971, decided that Roman pomposity had become a Capitol embarrassment. White stopped further encroachments on the surrounding residential neighborhood. He commissioned a master plan for development of the congressional campus within its existing boundaries. And when a third Senate office building became necessary in 1972 (supplementing the Dirksen and Richard Russell buildings), he spurned the short roster of traditional architects who had worked on Capitol Hill for generations and selected John Carl Warnecke and Associates...
...Russell Building has uniformly high 16-ft. ceilings, which seems a waste of space for clerks and typists. The 1958 Dirksen Building has uniformly low 10-ft. 4-in. ceilings, which seems undignified for Senators. Warnecke's solution: 16-ft. ceilings for the senatorial offices, with the adjoining staff space built on two levels, each with 8½-ft. ceilings. One advantage of the older buildings that Warnecke omitted: private office doors allowing Senators to slip in and out unseen...
...setting. Unlike the grand and spacious Caucus Room of the Russell Senate Office Building, where John and Robert Kennedy had launched their bids for the White House, Room 4232 of the Dirksen Senate Office Building is small and comparatively humble. Packed inside with a slew of Kennedy family members were the usual political retainers and loyal supporters, gathered together for the occasion: not the launching but the scuttling of a presidential bid. Announced Edward Kennedy last week: "I will not be a candidate for President of the United States...
...scene: Room 5110 of the Dirksen Senate Office building. The occasion: the first public meeting of the bipartisan National Commission on Social Security Reform to take place since the President and Senate Budget Committee called for $40 billion in cuts in the system over the next three years. The result: a partisan shouting match, with cameras clicking, that symbolized the tensions evoked by this sensitive issue...