Word: metalworking
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...attempt to come closer to the original architects' design than the final pre-war agglomeration of metalwork, corner pinnacles, small dormer windows above the clock faces, and various gewgaws which were added in 1897 will probably not go back on the tower...
...average man modern architecture, modern furniture, modern city planning suggest depressing acres of window-pitted, slablike walls, rooms like hospital wards, cubical stacks of identically planned apartments, chairs of undernourished metalwork, "housing" developments that resemble mass-produced jails. He is apt to forget such examples of perfect, modern design as the airplane, the suspension bridge, the ocean liner...