Word: emhart
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Among its clients: Heinz, Ford, Manufacturers Hanover Trust, Upjohn, Brunswick, Inland Steel, Union Carbide, PepsiCo, Emhart and Tenneco...
Both were designed by the ebullient Gordon Bunshaft, chief designer at Skidmore, Owings & Merrill's Manhattan office. The new building is headquarters for the Emhart Manufacturing Co., which develops and produces machinery for making glass containers. Though in no sense decorated with extraneous embellishments, the building has a warm freedom about it that is almost impossible to achieve in even the best steel and glass boxes. The reason is that the structure is of prestressed concrete. "Steel is prefabricated in rectilinear units, and you have to work with that," says Bunshaft. "With concrete, you have to make your...
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