Word: domes
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...demonstration of the omniequilateral, omnitriangulated finite system, and the 15 axes interconnecting opposite mid-points of the icosahedron's 30 edges. But all this, being very Artzybasheffesque, was topped by the opportunity to do Fuller's head in the pattern of his most successful invention-the geodesic dome. "It was," said Boris, "a simple, wonderful challenge of breaking up his head like that and still have it come out a likeness...
...brothers, and all that time something ugly and un inspired would be sitting there. So they drew up plans for something attractive and imaginative: a red brick snailshell. Customers enter where a snail would, find tellers ranged behind a curved counter inside the shell. Daylight comes through a plastic dome in the roof. The little building has caused much comment ("Entering it along that sloping pathway," says a woman depositor, "is like being sucked into a hair drier"), and many Bostonians will be sorry to see it torn down...
...lawn below the steps and through the waiting line. As they turned to descend the hill at the Senate side of the Capitol, a silent, respectful throng began to follow far behind until they crossed a street to a waiting limousine. Jackie looked back once at the floodlit dome and the intent crowd in the cold below it. Then she turned to Bobby and a weak, grateful smile crossed her face as she entered...
...govern." For the District of Columbia is, undeniably, a mess. Just who is responsible for the mess is another question. To begin with, the mess has very little to do with crime. Reporters find it exciting to present accounts of visitors being robbed "within sight of the Capitol dome," but it is still true that of the twelve largest American cities, Washington had only the seventh highest crime rate per capita. The crime rate is on the rise in the District; it is also going up in the other eleven cities...
...corridors. Philip had commanded his architects to create "simplicity in the construction, severity in the whole, nobility without arro gance, majesty without ostentation." Except for the gables, almost every line in the facades is dead straight; the exterior is cold, unadorned and broken only by tiny windows; the dome of the basilica is enclosed as if within a fortress. Thus at a stroke, Philip ended the tradition of exuberantly ornamented Spanish architecture known as the plateresque, a hodgepodge of Gothic, Moorish and early Renaissance motifs...