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Warned to make their designs "harmonize with the historically developed architecture of Moscow" and not to copy "the ugly system of capitalist building," Stalin's draftsmen spread their efforts over acres of ground, but in reaching for height, they were unable to avoid imitating at least one American skyscraper. The Moscow vysotnye zdania or "tall buildings," bear a marked resemblance to New York's 1913 Woolworth building, but to Woolworth Gothic the Soviet architects added adornments borrowed from classical sources, and some of their own devising. Thus all eight vysotnye carry tall spires mounting garlanded Red Stars...
...bigger one, a faster one." Bill Allen's answer to Twining is the greatest research and development program in Boeing's history. Under Senior Vice President Wellwood Beall, Boeing's engineering department has grown into an army of more than 5,000 top designers, engineers and draftsmen. To build better planes, Boeing this year will spend nearly $5,000,000 on research alone. It will also build a new high-velocity wind tunnel to produce speeds of 1,100 m.p.h...
Lester A. Collins, chairman of the department of Landscape, Architecture, states the school's aim is "not to educate draftsmen, but to educate the men who will run the whole works, the leaders and administrators...
...group effort. Louis Skidmore, 55, and his cofounder, Nathaniel A. Owings, 49, were both trained in the Beaux Arts ("best things of the past") tradition, but quickly looked beyond it. With John Merrill, 55, and their seven partners, six associate partners, 13 participating associates and 700-odd dedicated young draftsmen, engineers and experts, they have taken the ideas of Le Corbusier, Gropius, Mies van der Rohe and other pioneers of the International (or United Nations Building) School and moulded them to the needs of their clients...
Guys's estimate of his work was overmodest. Since his death in a charity clinic in 1892, museums and private collectors have begun to collect his drawings. Last week Paris critics had compared him with Rembrandt and Goya, and labeled him "one of the most sumptuous draftsmen of the French school...