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Word: octagon (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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Working with TAG, which operates on an equal-partner basis but assigns one architect as job captain to each project, Gropius is also kept busy with a new synagogue in Baltimore, the U.S. embassy in Athens, and is acting as a consultant on Manhattan's $100 million, octagon-shaped Grand Central City-a massive, 55-story structure adjacent to Grand Central Station, which will be the world's largest commercial office structure...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: The Lawgiver | 6/29/1959 | See Source »

...instance, the man who picked horses by studying the shape of their skulls. Horace Greeley suggested that in the interests of safe train travel, brakemen should have the right-shaped head. There was even phrenological housing: Orson Fowler had built a mansion in the shape of an octagon, which started quite a fashion for octagonal houses...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: The Couch & the Calipers | 10/31/1955 | See Source »

...petals about a flower, but each cluster is removed from the main part of the building. To get the shape of the classrooms, Perkins and Will experimented with full-scale diagrams on a gym floor. The circle and square, they decided, were too imprisoning; the pentagon was drab, the octagon confusing. The architects' final decision: the hexagon...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Oceans of Piffle | 9/7/1953 | See Source »

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