Word: interiorization
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Habitation is a massive structure of reinforced concrete, 450 feet long, 70 feet deep, and 180 feet high, containing 337 apartments for a population of 1,600. Designed as a piece of gigantic sculpture, it stands apart in an 11 1/2-acre park. Its seventh and eighth floors form an interior street flanked by small shops. On the roof is a garden with a playground for children and a wandering track for running...
...very beautiful little building, which manages to look modest and aristocratic at the same time. Its symetrical simplicity is much like that of Massachusetts Hall, the only flourish being its ornately carved pediments which bear the arms of Samuel Holden, a London merchant and donor of the chapel. The interior of the building has undergone several thorough remodelings and lacks the elegance of the original plan but the Georgian proportions of the Chapel are still noticeable and still attractive...
...happen by. The neat rows of Ionic pilasters and windows, the classical doorway and the stately scale of the house, contributed to its attractiveness. Now the Master's Residence at Adams House, the building has lost its view of the river and most of its ground but its handsome interior and facade remain intact...
...upper levels of the Center evidently appear originally in the Refuge City of the Salvation Army, built in Paris in 1920. The glass blocks which line one wall of the front elevation were used similarly in the Swiss Pavilion of Paris's University City in 1930. And the austere interior, though noticeable in virtually every Le Corbusier work, especially resembles that of the Villa Sarabhai which was erected...
...Some pesticides used in agriculture and government extermination programs are damaging to wildlife. The FDA has no control in this area, and the report recommends that the Secretary of the Interior should take charge of this problem...