Word: outdoors
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...foot arcade running east-west through the center of the building was going to be decorated with art works. The terraces of the office wing were supposed to have been adorned with plants, "sort of like hanging gardens," Sert says. Sert had also hoped to have an outdoor amphitheatre on the roof of the semi-circular lecture hall section. The building's two courtyards were going to be sculpture gardens. "Unfortunately, the parts of the building that were supposed to be given to the arts were the first to be cut out," Sert noted...
Some of Sert's innovations have remained, however. One of the courtyards will hold a cafeteria, which will have outdoor tables when the weather is warm. And Sert is hoping to negotiate with the Peabody Museum for long-term loans of primitive works of art to decorate the Science Center...
When it comes to outdoor sculpture, Philadelphia is Fat City. A 1959 ordinance requires that 1% of the cost of all public buildings be devoted to sculptural adornment. Presently ready for casting in Milan is a 36-ft.-high bronze by Jacques Lipchitz called Government of the People, on which the city has already spent $122,500. But when Philadelphia's law-and-order Mayor Frank Rizzo heard that the casting and shipping would come to another $177,000, the news turned him into an instant art critic. "Government of the People," said Rizzo, "looks like some plasterer dropped...
Pennsylvania, which has built an Eastern track dynasty almost overnight, is a strong favorite to successfully defend its outdoor Heptagonal title this weekend in Philadelphia while a talented, but undermanned Harvard squad, Army, Princeton, Cornell, and Navy vie for places two through...
...throughout the area. Like many other stores, the Coop will have special window displays celebrating the celebration, but Howard Davis has also offered to close off Palmer Street for Festival activities. Along with Forbes Plaza and the courtyard of the Architects' Collaborative, this will be the area devoted to outdoor demonstrations of batikking, macrame and pottery, and the space allotted to events like puppet shows, concerts and the escapades of recycle workshops. The entire Festival will be linked for a day by video monitors which are part of the University's recently rediscovered cable television system. Stepping back in time...