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...addition, architects Douglas Orr and Eero Saarinen and associates have been authorized to prepare working plans for the structure which will be contemporary in design. It will be located on a hilltop of the Pierson-Sage Square to the rear of the present Sterling Chemistry Laboratory, in the vicinity of Sachem and Prospect Streets...
...winning design was announced: a stainless steel, streamlined, 590-ft.-high arch to rise beside the Mississippi on a site which was formerly occupied mostly by old warehouses. The arch, with a "funicular elevator and observation corridor," had first reared in the mind of a talented Michigan architect named Eero Saarinen, who, with his father Eliel, is a frequent winner of architectural competitions. His prize this time: $40,000 and a warm recommendation to Washington. (Congress must approve the "Jefferson National Expansion Memorial," as it is to be called, and put up most of the estimated $30 million cost...
Businessmen and industrialists joined hands with Finland's biggest trade-union leader, oldtime Bolshevik Eero Vuori. Vuori might become a link between Bolshevik-hating Baron Mannerheim and Moscow. For despite Risto Ryti's promise to Hitler, secret talks between Finns and Russians had been resumed in Stockholm. Out of them came a Finnish hope that Moscow would deal with Mannerheim...
Best-looking entries in the show were a group of splashily printed fabrics, done with the silk-screen process by Czechoslovak Architect Antonin Raymond. Most practical furniture was a set of unit bookcases and cupboards by Cranbrook, Mich.'s Eero Saarinen (son of famed Finnish Architect Eliel Saarinen) and Charles Eames. Resting on smooth, knee-high benches, the Saarinen and Eames cupboardry could be stacked in as many window-seat and pigeonhole combinations as any modern apartment would hold...
...choosing as architects dapper, apple-cheeked, Finnish-born Eliel Saarinen and his broad-shouldered, twinkling son Eero, the Tabernacle Church got a pair of modernists whom even conservative architects respect. Best known for his rose-granite railway station at Helsinki, Eliel Saarinen recently won (with Son Eero and Son-in-law Robert Swanson) the national competition for the $2,500,000 Smithsonian Gallery of Art, which, if built, will be Washington's first modern Government building. Now president of Cranbrook Academy of Art near Detroit, Architect Saarinen exerts a widening influence over U. S. building...