Word: mansard
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Workers were busy last week restoring the roof of the Cabildo, New Orleans' 1795 landmark, when a fire apparently ignited by their soldering irons did the opposite. The blaze destroyed the mansard roof and cupola of the Louisiana State Museum, as the building is officially known, and its third floor. Fire fighters went inside while the roof was still burning to rescue portraits and historical artifacts. But historical furniture and some works of art were ruined. The Cabildo, where the Louisiana Purchase was completed in 1803, is regarded as one of America's most treasured landmarks. Fortunately, thanks...
...most problematic part of the Times Square redevelopment plan is the Johnson-Burgee complex, which will straddle the confluence of 42nd Street, Broadway and Seventh Avenue. The planned buildings are of varying heights (29, 37, 49 and 56 stories) but otherwise identical: grand colonnades, red and pink granite, glass mansard roofs. These will be hulking structures, with more than twice the square footage of the area's current most egregious behemoth: John Portman's 50-story Marriott Marquis hotel a few blocks up Broadway...
...elegant presence on 53rd Street. Fox and Fowle, the New York City architectural firm, has created an airy space within Architect Kevin Roche's Hutton tower. Although the museum's facade is faced with the same pinkish granite as the tower, it is free of Roche's flamboyant touches -- mansard roof and lobby fit for the enthronement of pharaohs...
...reopen this week, glittering with all her former glory, and more. Developer Oliver Carr poured in $120 million, searched the history books for authenticity, matched the marble in Italy, added an office building and retail complex and retained the building's classic stateliness with bull's-eye windows and mansard roofs -- and the legends of a small, raw country becoming a great republic...
...Grays Hall: Built in 1862, Grays Hall was the first college dormitory with running water. It was a noticeable break from the style of other dorms since it was built with granite trim and a mansard roof...