Word: ductwork
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...itself goes to the opposite extreme. As soon as any employee smells something bad, he is asked to dial A-I-R on the factory phone. If the problem is serious, expert "sniffers" hurry to the scene, ready to bottle the air, analyze it and repair the leak. Elaborate ductwork in one factory connects the points where noisome phenols might be emitted and whisks them to a scrubber system that removes the odor with absorbent filters. Since 1967, Monsanto has spent almost $3,000,000 to curb pollution in St. Louis, plus another $12 million at its other plants across...
...such architecture might be like is shown by Rudolph's own IBM building in East Fishkill, N.Y., where the middle floor is devoted to machinery whose intake and exhaust hoods grow out from beneath the cantilevered top story like heavy eyelids. In other office buildings, Rudolph has let ductwork swarm like vines over the fa?ade, set his stairwells out from the walls like turrets. And in his soon-to-be-completed Creative Arts Center at Colgate University, he has tried an even more daring scheme: he has turned the building inside...