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Inverted Ship. Eero Saarinen's hockey stadium at Yale cost nearly twice the original budget of $750,000 and is worth every nickel. It stands like an inverted Viking ship with a concrete arch for its keel. The vast ceiling of weathered planks sags slightly, tent fashion, from the central spine. From outside, the stadium looks as strange as a beached sea tortoise. Inside, its wide-open spaciousness, wintry light, and effect of weightlessness are exhilarating. The nation's foremost young architect, who has created such modern wonders as the General Motors Technical Center (TIME, July...
Critic-Author Aline B. Saarinen (wife of Architect Eero Saarinen) makes the point in a study of great American collectors published this week (The Proud Possessors; Random House; $5.95): "Their overpowering common denominator is this: for each of them, the collecting of art was a primary means of expression...
...Architect Eero Saarinen's General Motors Technical Center (TIME, July 2, 1956), 25 buildings on 330 acres of suburban land outside Detroit-a precision-machined campus of laboratories, offices and shops...
...Rohe's Manhattan Seagram Building. It chronicles the mass move to the suburbs by displaying a variety of housing, ranging from Rafael Soriano's garden apartments in Los Angeles to the up-to-date housing of Levittown, Pa. and suburban shopping and industrial centers, e.g., Eero Saarinen's General Motors Technical Center outside Detroit...
...then in the next breath, told of a windfall already harvested. The gift: $15 million from the Old Dominion Foundation established by Financier Paul Mellon. Yale '29. It will be used to strengthen the residential college system, add two new colleges. Architect for preliminary site and design studies: Eero Saarinen...