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...balconies giving clear sight lines to the stage. M.I.T. Architecture Dean Pietro Belluschi will build a new Juilliard School. For a park to the southwest, the Guggenheim Foundation will donate a $500,000 bandstand for summer concerts. Still to be assigned from a pool of such top architects as Eero Saarinen and Edward D. Stone are commissions for a repertory theater and a museum-library...
...grille become a cliche and a cover for bad architecture? Says Manhattan Architect Philip Johnson: "The New Delhi embassy? How could I help but love it? It's a jewel! But architecture is more than putting up drapes in front of a house to hide it." Architect Eero Saarinen (TIME Cover, July 2, 1956) feels that the New Delhi embassy "marks a new turning point toward stateliness and dignity," but also thinks that "the best thing that could happen to Ed Stone is for his friends to take him down on the floor and wrestle his grilles away from...
...bluff overlooking Lake Michigan, Milwaukee has just built one of the country's finest examples of modern architecture put to work for civic purposes. It is a new Memorial Center, designed by Architect Eero Saarinen (TIME, July 2, 1956), combining quarters for veterans' services and a new home for the Milwaukee Art Institute in an open, dramatically cantilevered structure built for $2,700,000. In its first five weeks of full operation, the Memorial Center has already added new zest to community life and revitalized art interest in the city. The Art Institute's housewarming show-some...
With less emotion and more judgment, top architects, including Eero Saarinen and M.I.T.'s Pietro Belluschi, enthusiastically praised the originality and appropriateness of the chapel. The House, by a vote of 102 to 53, took a stand against the architects. Next day the House reversed itself and approved the building, 147 to 83. This week the Senate will begin to make its esthetic judgment of the chapel, with strong emphasis on the beauty of $3,000,000 in economy-minded...
...dining room decorated with a ship model made of cloves; the waitresses wear 18th century costumes. One of the handsomest company rooms is at General Motors' new Technical Center near Detroit, where 4,500 employees eat in an air-conditioned glass and stainless-steel world designed by Architect Eero Saarinen. San Francisco's Bank of America and Western Electric Co.'s Cleveland plant have lounges with TV or hi-fi sets and card tables for after-lunch relaxation; St. Louis' McDonnell Aircraft even imports baseball players, singers and theater stars to entertain...