Word: interiorization
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Space Needle, typifying the theme of "the world of Century 21''; a sort of Eiffel Tower dipped in concrete, its sheaf-of-wheat shape rises 608 ft. and makes it the tallest structure west of the Mississippi. The 3½-acre Washington State Coliseum, blessedly free of interior supports and decorative gimmicks, not only serves as one of the fair's chief display areas, but will be used later for sports events (capacity: 20,000) and, Seattle hopes, national political conventions. A 3,100-seat opera house, built in the shell of Seattle's grimy...
Died. Thomas Bull, 96, courtly, wing-collared interior decorator, a Norwegian-born tastemaker whose elegant curlicues adorned New York's costliest mansions (among his clients: the Morgans, Vanderbilts, Woolworths) as well as Schrafft's restaurants, who outlived both his patrons and his style, never losing his firm distaste for wall-to-wall carpeting; in Manhattan...
...standard and skimpy eight feet, and it is a rare apartment that has a working fireplace. Complains Decorator Elizabeth Draper: "The rooms are so neutral: they have no moldings or cornices, no 'eyebrows,' no character." Echoes Designer T. H. Robsjohn-Gibbings: "Apart from their shabbiness, the interior spaces are so ignoble. The ceilings are too low-the areas are just not worthy!" The grand old apartments are still perhaps the city's best, still command towering prices (the remaining rentals along Park and Fifth Avenues run as high as $1,500 per room per year...
...spiral stairs represent an excellent example of the intimate relation between structure and form conceived by Nervi. Their immediate purpose, Nervi explained, was to prevent the logjams which inevitably occurred when masses of spectators crowded into the traditional interior tunnels. Their construction delayed the completion of the Stadium, yet in finished form they not only solved the problem of crowding, but were immediately recognizable even to the untrained eye as purely aesthetic triumphs...
...constructing the spiral stairs that Nervi first hindered by the rigidity which an interior timber formwork imposed on reinforced concrete. The next twelve years witnessed Nervi's various modifications of the skeleton of reinforced concrete and "in retrospect' strikingly continuous progression toward ferro-cement...