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Built at an estimated cost of $35 million, the Seagram monument is set back on a twin-fountained, granite and marble plaza that serves as its pedestal. By day it is a soaring column the color of an old cannon; by night it is a giant, glowing shaft punctuating the...
Looking for a firm that could best "express the newest in materials and design," Connecticut General executives fanned out over the country, picked S.O.M.'s Gordon Bunshaft and William S. Brown, the team that had designed Manhattan's medal-winning Lever House (TIME, April 28, 1952) and Manufacturers...
CELEBRATING its 100th anniversary in Washington this week, the American Institute of Architects got down to a five-day series of speeches, panels and discussion groups on the past and future of U.S. architecture. Looking back over the past 100 years, a photographic exhibit of some 200 black-and-white...
The memorial will be constructed of white translucent marble, so that when the pavilion is lighted inside at night the floor of the plaza will glow in the dark. The jury, including such topflight architects as Ludwig Mies van der Rohe, Gordon Bunshaft, Joseé Luis Sert and Pier Luigi...
As modern U.S. architecture is now dividing between the skeletal slabs on one hand and voluminous concrete-shell structures on the other, so is the architects' furniture. George Nelson's "coconut" chair uses a sheet-metal shell over which leather or plastic is stretched to get a three...