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Author: /time Magazine | Title: TIN PAN ALLEY: Let's Run It up the Fir Tree | 12/15/1958 | See Source »

...lying false façade-all this is called...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Homer Continued | 12/8/1958 | See Source »

...central service core at the axis of the prongs. To cut down glare from floor-to-ceiling windows, Breuer incorporated a variety of sunshade devices (horizontal sun-louvers, vertical slabs, extended brackets holding panes of thermal glass) that varied according to the various sun conditions and enriched the façades with glittering patterns...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Palace of Concrete | 12/8/1958 | See Source »

Equally successful is the butterfly-roofed conference hall. With roof and monumental façade shaped from folded concrete slabs, it attains simple dignity by the drama of its stark engineering. Says Nervi: "At last reinforced concrete has become a 'noble' architectural material...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Palace of Concrete | 12/8/1958 | See Source »

...Parisians got used to glass façades and folded concrete, the new UNESCO was steadily winning new friends. "This architecture is done with such talent that it goes perfectly with the Ecole Militaire," decided former Chief of French Museums Georges Salles. "A splendid poem in concrete and glass," said Paris' leading art review, L'Oeil. And from the top of the Eiffel Tower, guides were beginning matter-of-factly to point out UNESCO as one of the marvels of Paris. Modern architecture, like modern art, was beginning to seem like something the French had been in favor...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Palace of Concrete | 12/8/1958 | See Source »

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