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"This is a building that we believe may exert an influence on the office of the future, perhaps even on the city of the future." says Connecticut General's President Frazar Wilde. And not without reason. For as industry shifts to the countryside, it can build with a streamlined...
Out of the Carriage Factory. For a client, huge (a staff of 900 and more than $350 million in current projects) Skidmore, Owings & Merrill had in Connecticut General's Wilde, 62, a born Yankee who frankly prefers New England colonial, but knows as a good insurance man that "you...
The problem faced by Designers Walter Netsch and Gordon Bunshaft, partners of Skidmore, Owings & Merrill, was to provide shelter and suitable surroundings for three services-Protestant, Catholic and Jewish-under one roof, and relate the chapel to the academy's other buildings and its majestic mountain backdrop. The solution...
Graham fellows in the arts will be free to go back to college, travel abroad, or continue working at home. Only requirement is that they attend a two-month round-table "Institute on the Arts" in Chicago. "What the artist or scholar produces in the year is unimportant," says Director...
Outwardly, Eero (pronounced arrow) Saarinen (rhymes with far-'n-then) looks like a country family doctor, dresses with the casualness of a young college prof, prefers to live clear of the cities, in the rolling countryside of Bloomfield Hills, Mich. (pop. 2,100), 18 miles from downtown Detroit. His...