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...would be the offices and broadcasting studios of NBC, RCA, RKO; a huge vaudeville theatre, a huge picture theatre, additional buildings for banks, shops, restaurants, offices. At John Reynard Todd's suggestion, three firms of architects were appointed to work with him: Reinhard & Hofmeister; Corbett, Harrison & MacMurray; Raymond Hood, Godley & Fouilhoux...
...critics had an immediate reason for hurrying to inspect the model and renderings exhibited last week. Two of the three architects of Radio City-Raymond Mathewson Hood and Harvey Wiley Corbett-are also architects of the much publicized 1933 Chicago World's Fair. Fortnight ago at a meeting to protest the exclusion of the modernist pioneer Frank Lloyd Wright from the commission of Fair architects (TIME, March 9) the Fair designs of Architects Hood & Corbett were bitterly attacked as "fake modernism," "eclectic shams," "a pretty cardboard picture of ancient wall masses...
...Commission: Chairman Harvey Wiley Corbett (New York); Edward Herbert Bennett (Chicago); Hubert Burnham (Chicago); John Augur Holabird (Chicago); Raymond Mathewson Hood (New York); Ralph Thomas Walker (New York); Paul Philippe Cret (Philadelphia); Arthur Brown Jr. (San Francisco...
With considerable courage, Architect Raymond Hood, a member of the despised Commission, was present. Perspiring with embarrassment, he came forward to say a few words in defense. No one admired Architect Wright more than Architect Hood, but Architect Wright had not been chosen for the committee because he was "too much of an individualist...
Architect Hood might have talked about money. The Fair is being promoted financially by Ambassador Charles Gates Dawes and his brother Rufus Cutler. Its total cost has been estimated at $60,000,000, about $16,000,000 of which has been raised or promised. Because growing Chicago has little available land to give to the Fair, it is to be built partly on artificial islands superimposed on the muddy bottom of Lake Michigan, later to be turned into parks and playgrounds. The construction of this land alone will be costly. Two or three of the solid, honest buildings which...