Word: eero
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This is TIME'S fourth award from the A.I.A. in five years, others having come to us for past cover stories on Architects Eero Saarinen and Edward D. Stone, both written by Cranston Jones, and honorable mention for excellence of our architectural coverage. TIME prints more stories and more pictures about architecture than any other general magazine, believing in the impact and interest of good design and wishing there was more...
...Schools of Tomorrow," Sept. 12. We are honored to be mistaken for Richard J. Neutra. I am sure he would have done Crow Island School better, but I believe that it was, in fact, designed by Perkins, Wheeler and Will, with Eliel and Eero Saarinen. Please advise before you put our babies out for adoption...
...Dulles International Airport, due to open near Washington, D.C. in 1961, is radically different in concept. Unlike most airports, it will have no passageways reaching out onto the apron to detract from its lofty, templelike terminal designed by Architect Eero Saarinen. Instead of jets coming up to terminal fingers, passengers will simply walk into giant "mobile lounges" that will move them out to the jets...
...vulgarity." But by last week, when the fierce Yankee bird was hoisted into place, most of the locals allowed that they would probably learn to live with it, though they may still prefer pigeons. A few were even inclined to agree with the embassy's renowned Architect Eero Saarinen, who had tried to calm their earlier qualms with a somewhat technical reassurance: "The eagle will provide a vertical reference point in an otherwise horizontal facade...
...with any bold architectural venture, the results have often met with a mixed critical reaction. Eero Saarinen's Oslo embassy (opposite) has been warmly praised, while his nearly completed London embassy, which combines traditional Portland stone with straw-colored aluminum trim, has been sharply taken to task for being too brash and bright. In New Delhi, Edward D. Stone adopted the form of an Indian temple and wrapped it with a lacy grille that lights up like a jewel box at night. The New Delhi embassy has been so widely admired that it now stays open on Sundays...