Word: domes
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Benedictine monastery church of St. John's at Collegeville, Minn., Marcel Breuer has flung skyward a 112-ft.-high bell banner utilizing reinforced concrete and parabolic curves to erect a vertical cantilever, a form that Architect Breuer thinks as expressive of the mid-20th century as the Byzantine dome and Gothic arch and spire were of their times...
They are R. Buckminster Fuller '17, who introduced the geodesic dome to modern architecture; Pier Luigi Nervi of Italy, an architect known for his use of thin concrete shells; and Felix Candela of Mexico, an experimenter with such new structural concepts as elliptical domes and umbrellas...
Fuller's geodesic dome--a structure composed of a large number of five-sided figures--is viewed as a practical way to cover large areas without columns. The United States used the dome for its new DEW line Radomes...
...just pick up the phone. CBS has put up the entire $480,000 cost of Camelot, and money now follows L. & L. wherever they go. They have yachts in the Mediterranean and villas on the Riviera. Lerner has a town house in Manhattan, and Loewe an airy glass pleasure-dome in Palm Springs, Calif. Each owns an $18,000 Rolls-Royce convertible; Loewe's is "black pearl" grey and Lerner's, according to a Rolls salesman, "not-quite-royal" blue...
...miles north of San Fran cisco, surveying teams this week went to work on the foundations of a radically new type of nuclear power plant for California's giant Pacific Gas & Electric Co. The reactor will be underground, thus eliminating the need for the expensive protective dome; it will incorporate new advances in design to produce more steam, thus increasing capacity. By 1964, when the second fuel core has been phased in, the reactor's generating capacity will reach about 60,000 kw. When it does, the plant is expected to break the cost barrier, become the world...