Word: gothically
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Last week the prizewinning design and four runners-up were on display in London. They were the pick of 219 entries ranging from grandiose synthetic Gothic to slick, engine-room modern and including one plan for a completely underground job. Most of the designs brought groans and boos from experts and laymen alike. Said one British architectural journal, The Builder: "In an age when some power stations are uncommonly like cathedrals, it is not surprising that some cathedrals should look like power stations." Said the London Times: "Modern architecture must be given its chance, but. . . it is doubtful whether...
...physical layout of the Yale school seems to contribute to this spirit. The Sterling, Law Buildings, which occupy a block next to the Yale library, form a quadrangle of campus gothic surrounding a picturesque court. All the class-rooms, offices, the dining hall, the library, and the men's dormitories are in these buildings. Usually, most of the first-year men live in the quadrangle along with upperclassmen. The easy intermingling helps newcomers learn the ropes quickly and naturally...
Reinforcement of towers and masonry came first, but by last year trained workers began chipping away the rest of the Marienkirche's whitewash. Slowly they uncovered panel after panel of 13th and 14th Century work. With crude but forceful strokes, the old Gothic craftsmen had covered the walls with stately saints and serene virgins, friezes of animals and flowers, medieval street scenes, vignettes from the Bible and Aesop's fables. The colors, brilliant reds, blues, greens and yellows, were still unfaded...
...major artistic find, the frescoes are among the few Gothic wall paintings still in existence. For their fine state of preservation, Liibeck can thank sedate 15th Century churchmen who considered such lively church decorations old-fashioned and undignified, ordered them whitewashed in 1476. A generation or two later came the Reformation, the Marienkirche became a Protestant church, and the Lutherans kept up the whitewash treatment. In a short while, the underlying frescoes were forgotten by all but scholars...
High atop San Francisco's Nob Hill, the mourners and the curious crowded into massive, neo-Gothic Grace Cathedral. The great copper casket was carried into the arched, flower-filled chancel and set between two crosses of white lilies. From the Book of Common Prayer, the Rt. Rev. Karl Morgan Block, Episcopal Bishop of California, intoned the funeral service, without sermon or eulogy. At that moment, in the grimy office of the Examiner, a few blocks away, and in Hearst-papers across the land, typewriters and linotypes stilled their clatter, and for a few minutes the plants...