Word: exteriors
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Architecture Building staggers out by layers to shut off the vista up New Haven's Chapel Street. From the street there appear to be nine stories, but the inside is shelved off into 36 different levels, with ceilings ranging from seven feet to 28 feet. Shunning sleek exterior finishes, Rudolph opted for corduroy-like concrete walls. To make them even rougher, he had workmen rough up the edges with claw hammers. The building is both massive and full of surprises. "All sorts of conceits," says Rudolph, puckishly pointing out fishbones, seashells and coral in the concrete, "are buried...
...test, which cost $4,125,000, is the new Berlin Philharmonic Hall, inaugurated last week after six years of construction on a site only 154 yds. from the Berlin Wall. Like modern atonal music, the hall is asymmetrical, a polygonal loft in concrete that from its mustard-colored exterior resembles a huge aluminum-roofed circus tent with stiff ridgepoles. Berliners hope that landscaping will mitigate its bareness, and stake the hall's claim to greatness on its interior...
...prototype for a development, Architect Thomas C. Lehrecke designed a house for his own family at Tappan, N.Y., concentrating on combining flexibility with low cost ($28,000). The exterior is of redwood, Douglas fir and concrete block, accented with horizontal white panels...
...courtyards, 4,000 rooms, 86 staircases, 88 fountains and 100 miles of corridors. Philip had commanded his architects to create "simplicity in the construction, severity in the whole, nobility without arro gance, majesty without ostentation." Except for the gables, almost every line in the facades is dead straight; the exterior is cold, unadorned and broken only by tiny windows; the dome of the basilica is enclosed as if within a fortress. Thus at a stroke, Philip ended the tradition of exuberantly ornamented Spanish architecture known as the plateresque, a hodgepodge of Gothic, Moorish and early Renaissance motifs...
Beneath the suavely sophisticated exterior of each and every Harvard boy there beats a soft and mushy heart. The secret is simply to attack the heart and not the suavely sophisticated exterior...