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...style of the future. "All the major cities are as alive and as likely to keep growing as a tropical rain forest," declares Nat Owings. "There is no possibility of their dying. They are viable, they are vibrant and their growth is rank." By the year 2000, some 400 million Americans will be living in roughly the same areas as today. The question is: Can they do so and remain more or less human? "The answer," says Owings, "has to be yes, and the strategy of accomplishment must come in the next 15 years. The urgency is greater than that...
When S.O.M. won out over nine other firms in its bid to design the $152.5 million Air Force Academy, it decided to use the same modular glass curtain walls. But not without a fight. When a high-ranking Air Force officer suggested that the architects might better use sandstone, Owings was ready with an answer. "General," he said, "would you build an airplane out of sandstone? Well, I don't think we will build the academy out of it either...
S.O.M.'s impressive depth in talent has captured superb commissions. The firm now has $750 million worth of building under construction, including Dallas' Main Place office complex, the home office of the Georgia-Pacific Corp. in Portland, Ore., and the Art and Architecture building at the University of Illinois' Chicago Circle Campus?and there is another $1.2 billion of projects on the drafting boards. To each job S.O.M. will bring its proven methodology. Explains Owings: "You first ask if the building is needed or if it is possible to save the old one. Then you ask where it should...
...ever tackled." Surprisingly, it does not involve erecting a single building. The architects are studying ways of designing an 18-mile-long strip of Interstate 95 that will go through the heart of Baltimore. Secretary of Transportation Alan Boyd, whose department is financing the study with a special $4.8 million grant, says of Owings' effort: "The potential there is immense. Communities must decide for themselves what they want their cities to look like...
During the height of its monetary crisis last March, the U.S. lost some $1.2 billion worth of gold, the biggest outflow ever in one month. Since then, the situation has eased. In April, the nation's gold loss dropped to $156 million, in May to $79 million. Last week came the most encouraging word yet. During June, the Treasury Department announced, the U.S. enjoyed a net inflow of $213 million worth of gold, the biggest single increase in the nation's bullion reserves in more than four years and the first monthly gain of any kind since last...