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...will cost $200 million; the Houston contract will run to $250 million-two of the ripest architectural plums of the year. Both of these projects came from the busy assembly-line drawing boards of one of the most successful and controversial architects in the nation today, Charles Luckman, the onetime boy wonder of the corporate world...
...Luckman designed them both. Though he is 52 and getting puffy, Chuck Luckman still generates the same showman's charm that made him president of Pepsodent at 33, president of Lever Brothers at 37, and woefully out of a job at 40 (largely because Lever lost money after Luckman plunged heavily into new products and inventories...
Champions & Critics. In architecture as in big business, Luckman has strong champions and critics. The critics grumble that he is more a businessman than an architect. "He is successful," says one top Chicago architect coolly, "because he produces anonymous architecture in a prescribed time and at the least cost and fuss to his clients." Luckman denies only the "anonymous" part of that charge. He insists that "I'm in this business not for security but for satisfaction" Kansas City-born, Luckman was graduated magna cum laude in architecture from the University of Illinois ('31). But Depression pressures pushed...
...number is up to 117. Largely expanding by extension, U.C.L.A. now plans to double its libraries to 3,000,000 volumes. Now abuilding is a new college of fine arts, the first on any California campus. Well under way is a new theater-arts building, designed by Architect Charles Luckman, that will house two theaters...
...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...