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...Seville, bull breeders in flat-brimmed hats still sip cognac in sidewalk cafés, and aging horses still pull ancient carriages along streets lined with orange trees toward the world's largest Gothic cathedral. But across the Guadalquivir, tens of thousands of spinning bobbins turn raw cotton and wool into finished fabric in one of Europe's largest textile plants. In the main square of Cordoba, an Arab caliphate for 250 years, a transcribed electric guitar chimes the hour in flamenco rhythm. In Bilbao, shipyards work round the clock to keep pace with orders for merchant vessels...
...classic university campus is a grouping of quaint Gothic or red brick Georgian buildings adrift on a rolling meadow of greensward. But the exploding college population of the U.S. demands less casual and rustic solutions. In the Chicago metropolitan area alone, there are 150,000 college students. By 1980, estimates the University of Illinois, there will be 568,000 questing applicants. To meet this need, the university desperately needed a new campus, one that would be big, modern and accessible to city dwellers...
Balconies for Viewing. Most of all, Westminster Abbey has taught more than 30 generations what England is. Now, at a cost of $1,120,000 and ten years' labor, the Perpendicular Gothic pillars and spires stand renewed, the vaults and tombs are freshly polychromed (see color pages). The Abbey is actually under the jurisdiction of the Crown, that is, the English people, rather than under the sole rule of the church. When Elizabeth II comes next week to her "Royal Peculiar," she will come for the plain song and preaching more as just another communicant than as head...
...love with her was he that every noble in the land was ordered to attend. When the earl stooped from fatigue, the King bludgeoned him to the floor. As a work of architecture, the church boasts a 103-ft.-tall nave that is the loftiest example of Gothic architecture in Great Britain. More French by inspiration than any other English Gothic church, the Abbey has one feature that is missing in France's cathedrals-a wide viewing-gallery atop its first level. One reason: the Abbey is a royal church; extra room for viewing of royal ceremonies has always...
Computer Sculpture. Utzon soon discovered that architecture conceived as sculpture often becomes an engineering nightmare. The sails are all designed as gores taken from a master sphere. V-shaped ribs are cast from master molds on the site. Eventually these neo-Gothic ribs will be sheathed in white tiles, leaving the skeleton visible from beneath. It took three years to adapt Utzon's spherical geometry to actual construction, using computers to ensure that 170-ft. ribs weighing 80 tons would fit to a fraction of an inch...