Word: luckman
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...Garden, which will be jointly owned by Graham-Paige (75%) and the Pennsylvania Railroad (25%), will hopefully be ready when the 1964 New York World's Fair opens. Designed by Los Angeles Architect Charles Luckman, onetime (1946-50) boy-wonder boss of Lever Bros. Co., the nine-acre complex will include a 25,000-seat main sports arena, a 4,000-seat auxiliary arena, a 28-story luxury hotel, a 34-story office building, and parking facilities for 3,000 cars. Only the sub-street-level waiting room and the train concourse will be kept of the old Penn...
...sports complex will feature a 25,000-seat main arena building completely free from the interior columns that give present Garden fans a frequent crick in the neck. The new design by Soapman- Turned-Architect Charles Luckman will achieve its pillarless view by what he calls "the first use in such a large structure of a compression ring"-steel cables imbedded in concrete that support the roof. Onetime president of Lever Brothers Co. (1946-50), Luckman now employs 336 planners, architects and engineers, currently has $202 million worth of construction work under way from missile research centers to Los Angeles...
Plans for Luckman's Garden also envisage a two-level building containing a 2,000-seat arena above and a 1,000-seat arena below. A third building will house a two-level restaurant; the spacious second- story mall will contain a skating rink and outdoor swimming pool, with a bowling alley and parking for 3,000 cars underneath. In cold-weather months, the rink and pool will be covered by a blue-tinted plastic roof held up by air pressure...