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Dates: during 1960-1969
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When completed in August, 1971. Gund Hall will accommodate 400 students and 70 faculty members. The $6-million structure, designed by the Toronto firm of John Andrews/Anderson/Baldwin, will have five levels above ground and two below. Five step-like terraces will be covered by a single steel roof. Behind each terrace will be offices, seminar rooms, and lounges...
...shape our buildings; thereafter they shape us," observed Winston Churchill. The crisis in housing is beginning to warp American life. Housing is by far the largest expense for most families; when that cost soars, something else in the budget has to give. Most of the 40 million U.S. residents who move each year must now make difficult compromises: they must pay higher prices than they had budgeted, or accept less living space, longer commuting or lower school standards. The problem affects almost everybody-the rich in luxury apartments, the middle class in suburban subdivisions, the poor in festering slums...
...castigated urban renewal as "a failure quite irrelevant to the housing needs of the poor." Some projects have turned into slums as squalid as the shanties that they replaced. St. Louis' Pruitt-Igoe project, hailed as an architectural gem when it was built in 1954 for $117 million, has become a center of vandalism, muggings, dope, sexual perversion, rape and homicide. Stairwells and hallways reek of old garbage and excrement. Recently, elevator repairmen refused to work in the buildings because of repeated sniping incidents. Despite low rents, the project today is 43% vacant. Says the Rev. Buck Jones: "People...
...component parts. Many of the entries come from big firms that have hitherto been little involved in housing, including Republic Steel, General Electric and Union Carbide. Next month ten or 20 of the Breakthrough proposals will be selected by the Housing and Urban Development Department to share $15 million in research grants. Prototypes will be built on eight sites to be chosen from among hundreds that have been eagerly offered by 170 state and local governments...
...Center completed eleven years of operation on June 30, 1969. In that period its expenditures for all programs (except the Development Advisory Service) have amounted to just over $7 million, excluding the costs of facilities and services provided by the University. The support for these expenditures has been provided from the following sources...