Word: landreth
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Earth Sciences at MIT. The $5-million project worked fine, until students tried to get inside. Air pressure from wind whipping around the bottom floor of the building sealed the doors shut, and they had to be replaced with revolving doors at a cost of $60,000. Ann Landreth, public relations representative for Pei and Partners, explains that the building design was a common one, but that this wind-tunnel phenomenon "had never happened before...
Then there are the Boston Harbor Towers, a Pei project completed in 1973. In an April Esquire Magazine article, Gerry Nadel wrote that the high-rent tenants in the towers "are moaning about thin walls and loose plumbing." But Landreth claims that Pei and Partners "did only schematic drawings for the apartments, and not the interior." Nevertheless, Pei, as the architectural supervisor for the project, can't be completely exonerated for the faults inside the apartment...
...Landreth said last week that Pei "would absolutely withdraw if he thought a building was detrimental to the urban environment." "Mr. Pei takes great pains going into the neighborhood and interviewing people being dislocated and anybody who is touched financially," Landreth said. "All the data is then poured into a big central vat, before we consider the design we work...
...contention that the community could not handle the immense parking problems that the Library would cause in the area. The plan has already gone through many changes to meet with community zoning problems. "Mr. Pei wants it within the texture of the city so everybody's happy," Landreth says. But despite Pei's attempts to scale it down, according to a poll taken last month, about 69 per cent of the community is still opposed to having the combined library and museum proposal built at the old MBTA trolley barn...
...strange behavior of trees in groups. Why do trees on the perimeter of a forest have stocky, tapering trunks, while those in the interior are tall and slender and are easily toppled by wind after the tough outer trees have been felled either by nature or man? P. Landreth Neel and Richard Harris, environmental horticulturists working at the University of California at Davis, have come up with the most convincing answer so far. Their theory: perimeter trees that are fully exposed to the wind and are shaken by it-or any tree shaken by any means-will be stronger...