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Designed by Wallace K. Harrison and Max Abramovitz in 1966, Hilles is a modern cubist conglomeration sitting on a raised concrete platform where blocks of concrete and glass are assembled around a four-sided open courtyard strewn with hemispherical flowerpots, benches and a reflecting pool, all made out of concrete...
"This is the best day of my life, personally," said a union organizer, and the words echoed throughout the small, low-ceiling room of the club, as the victorious union supporters wandered around, congratulating each other and pushing through the strings of hundreds of colored ballons which dangled from the...
After a year and a half hiatus, the Ha' Penny pub reopened last Friday with the same low-ceiling, dim lights, stained-glass windows and assorted regulars that the pub has drawn since 1968.
¶ For the Washington Irving elementary school in Waverly, Iowa, Architects Lawrence Perkins and Philip Will went on the theory that children are happiest in their own little community. They equipped each classroom with its own washroom, scaled its windows and ceilings to child-size. Other kinds of rooms, however...
Why the change? Nobody was quite sure, but there were plenty of guesses among dealers. Americans seem to be buying fewer high-priced antiques, are turning increasingly to modern furnishings. New low-ceiling apartment houses and ranch homes are not suited to period furniture. On the other hand, many Europeans...