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Preparations really began in 1957, when then-Mayor Nathan Phillips launched an international design contest for the new city hall, which drew 520 entries from 42 countries. Five distinguished judges, including the late Eero Saarinen, finally gave the nod to Helsinki's Viljo Revell, and for good reason. Architecture was then struggling free from the glass and steel web of anonymous buildings popularized by Mies van der Rohe. With the inspiration of Le Corbusier's massive concrete government buildings in Chandigarh and Niemeyer's skyward-lofting Brasilia, architects at last felt free to conceive of civic structures...
...bound for cultural experiences. Said Moore, 67, on hand to supervise the installation: "I like the idea of the space being surrounded by controlled building." The bronze will sit, unpedestaled, as the centerpiece of a 120-ft. by 80-ft. reflecting pool, surrounded by the elevations of the late Eero Saarinen's Vivian Beaumont Theater, Max Abramovitz' Philharmonic Hall, Wallace K. Harrison's Metropolitan Opera House and Pietro Belluschi's yet-to-be-built structure for the Juilliard School of Music. "I didn't want my piece to stand there like a wooden soldier," says...
...twelve years as mayor of St. Louis, Raymond Roche Tucker floated $129.5 million in public-improvement bonds, bulldozed away acres of slums, attacked the traffic problem. Today, monuments to his administration stand everywhere: a nearly completed arch, designed by the late Eero Saarinen, symbolizing the city's history as a gateway to the West; an $89 million sports stadium rising from what was once Skid Row; 602 city blocks undergoing a facelift...
...sinewy Sardinian immigrant, Nivola loves outdoor public sculpture. He has sand-cast a 100-ton bas-relief for a Hartford, Conn., insurance company, carved out abstract fountains and reliefs in raw concrete for the late Eero Saarinen's brace of new colleges at Yale...
There are museums for just about everything these days, from insects to reconstructed New England whaling ports. For pure magnitude, nothing matches the problems of a museum for the aerospace age. When the private Air Force Museum Foundation approached Kevin Roche, 42, a partner in Eero Saarinen & Associates, to build a new museum at Wright-Patterson Air Force Base near Dayton, Ohio, they wanted a structure in which the ten-engine B-36 jet and pusher-prop driven bomber, largest plane ever used operationally, would look right at home...