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...shed has had a shopping mall and a new six- story hotel tucked inside. It is the architectural equivalent of the boat in the bottle, but the trick satisfies. The owners might have built a high- rise; fortunately, they deferred to the steel ceiling and let the architects, Hellmuth, Obata & Kassabaum, spread the new buildings out. Planes and walls jag fetchingly, as in real cities. Rounding a corner or descending a stair, / there are architectural surprises. Store names may be as treacly as the stuff they sell (Deck the Walls, Let's Make a Daiquiri and I Can't Believe...
...Levi's Plaza, Levi Strauss & Co., corporate headquarters, San Francisco, Calif. Hellmuth, Obata & Kassabaum Inc., architects. Located on the fringe of the city, this office complex frames a pleasant garden and proves that corporate prestige does not depend on scraping...
...alternately coarse and mincing frigidity of the 1971 Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts, the past 30 years of Washington architecture have been a prolonged failure of the bureaucratic imagination. There have been one or two notable exceptions, such as the 1976 National Air and Space Museum by Gyo Obata. But perhaps one more structure was needed to break this bind, to show that a modern building could embody the ceremonial gravity of "official" architecture while refusing to compromise its own inventiveness. On June 1 that structure opens to the public. It is, of course, the East Building...
Along the vast greensward that sweeps from the foot of Capitol Hill to the Washington Monument, there glitters the newest star of the Smithsonian Institution. The National Air and Space Museum (NASM), a huge, elegant hangar designed by St. Louis Architect Gyo Obata, is a cathedral to man's fascination with flight. Surfaced in pink Tennessee marble and bronze-tinted glass, the museum houses many of the great artifacts of aviation and space travel in a three-story structure 680 ft. long. A Washington rarity in that it was finished on time and within the $40 million budget...
However efficient the "drive to your gate" scheme seems, it does have a few drawbacks. Architects at the St. Louis firm of Hellmuth, Obata and Kassabaum, principal designers of the Texas airport, admit that airlines will have to add personnel to service each gate. In Kansas City, J.J. O'Donnell, president of the Air Line Pilots Association, worries that the many gates will hinder anti-skyjacking procedures. "I've seen a sieve with less holes," he says...