Word: domes
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Like the Conference Building, it is long and low. But where the Conference Building is rectangular, the Assem bly is sweepingly curved and capped with a wide dome. One end is clear plate glass, the other a cliff of marble and translucent glass strips. A long ramp leads up to the 2,170 seat Assembly hall. Along the walls are banks of transla tors' booths set in strips of gilded South American mahogany. Two vivid, swirling murals by France's Fernand Leger flank the hall, and over the podium will shine rows of plaques bearing the seals...
...introduced a steel dome to give an impression of greater interior height. And there were other troubles-problems of riveters who were almost unable to hammer in the oversized rivets needed to brace the Secretariat against the wind, of a tiny decoration budget that had to be eked out with paint, plaster and imagination. Harrison was asked last week how he ever managed to get the U.N. built. "The same way you build a railroad," said Harrison. "Foot by foot...
...Both were still in the model stage. ¶ The Geodesic House, which looks at quick glance like an airy, latticework igloo, is the work of ingenious Designer R. Buckminster Fuller (TIME, Nov. 7, 1946, et seq.). Fuller's new design-aims at economy and simplicity. He chose the dome shape in order to cover the largest area with the least surface, and because such a house should be easier to cool and heat than conventional ones. The surface itself, he says, can be transparent (and closed off with a parachute-like curtain) or opaque. Various floor levels are suspended...
...must, but never kill." the Chavantes have given no trouble. In fact, recently a party of breech-clouted braves joined with the roadbuilders in a fiesta so festive that their chief wound up taking a flight in a foundation airplane. The chief circled ecstatically over his village of dome-shaped huts, roaring with laughter and shouting greetings to his people below...
...dome, The sun's west...