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...next day Miss Voss had to tell them more. Overnight, Jeremy DeNeal had run into a wall at the juncture of routes 70 and 270. Jeremy had known everybody and done everything: partied with the partyers, prayed at Young Life, worked in the school office. Meg Kassabaum, a reserve third baseman, looks up. "The whole school went silent," she remembers. Then it fell apart. One girl cried so hard in her car that she had an accident...
...shopping mall and a new six- story hotel tucked inside. It is the architectural equivalent of the boat in the bottle, but the trick satisfies. The owners might have built a high- rise; fortunately, they deferred to the steel ceiling and let the architects, Hellmuth, Obata & Kassabaum, spread the new buildings out. Planes and walls jag fetchingly, as in real cities. Rounding a corner or descending a stair, / there are architectural surprises. Store names may be as treacly as the stuff they sell (Deck the Walls, Let's Make a Daiquiri and I Can't Believe It's Yogurt...
...Levi's Plaza, Levi Strauss & Co., corporate headquarters, San Francisco, Calif. Hellmuth, Obata & Kassabaum Inc., architects. Located on the fringe of the city, this office complex frames a pleasant garden and proves that corporate prestige does not depend on scraping...
However efficient the "drive to your gate" scheme seems, it does have a few drawbacks. Architects at the St. Louis firm of Hellmuth, Obata and Kassabaum, principal designers of the Texas airport, admit that airlines will have to add personnel to service each gate. In Kansas City, J.J. O'Donnell, president of the Air Line Pilots Association, worries that the many gates will hinder anti-skyjacking procedures. "I've seen a sieve with less holes," he says...
Lasting Investment. Politics represents a direction architects have traditionally been loath to take. But not for much longer. Says A.I.A. President George Kassabaum: "Architects cannot wait until the politician, the sociologist and the economist invite us into the picture. By then, too many of the important decisions have been made." Nat Owings heartily agrees. He knows from experience that once decisions have been built into concrete, they are there to stay. He also sees the architect as the only person trained to maintain the balance between those esthetic qualities that give grace to modern city living and the multiple commercial...
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