Word: malling
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...Harvard Cooperative Society would like to have Palmer St. turned into a "pedestrian mall" with all traffic except supply trucks prohibited, one of the Coop's directors said Monday...
...idea for a pedestrian mall may have come from Sheldon Dietz '41 who has persistently fought the Coop's new annex on the grounds that present plans would detract from Palmer St.'s aesthetic qualities...
Yamasaki began with an awkward lot, bisected by Nicollet Avenue, scheduled to become a pedestrian mall ending in a park. Instead of obstructing the vista, Yamasaki resolved to enhance it. But how? He considered lifting the structure on stilts ("It would have been like going through a tunnel"), putting in an archway ("But that would have cut the building up"), moving it off to one side ("Then the building would not have been visible from Nicollet Avenue, and we had a beautiful location...
...solution, when it came, so delighted Yamasaki that he confesses to having jumped up and down with glee: a giant, six-story portico, which would marry the building, mall and park. To slenderize his trumpet-topped columns as much as possible, he manufactured them in one piece on the site and derricked them into place. The building repeats their rhythm around the facade in the manner of a Greek temple...
...Music Center is in the heart of Los Angeles, at the center of the cloverleafs that have long been mockingly called the center of the city; thus it is both highly accessible and highly visible, giving Los Angeles a new visual axis, with the building handsomely anchoring the new mall that leads to City Hall. Moreover, the center is recognized as a milestone in the city's cultural aspirations. Immediately after the opening number, Conductor Mehta turned to the audience and with some Indian ambiguity addressed himself to the occasion...