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Word: pavilions (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Montreal's Expo 67, the glittering bubble designed by Buckminster Fuller made the U.S. Pavilion the highest-and most striking-building at the fair. For Osaka's Expo 70, the U.S. has come up with a switch: a ground-hugging shallow dome that will be the lowest pavilion at the fair-so low, in fact, that part of it will be underground...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Design for Osaka | 11/28/1969 | See Source »

Designed by a team of young New Yorkers who won the commission over much better known contestants, the present pavilion is a comedown of sorts from the spectacular cluster of airborne spheres originally proposed but ruled out by a congressional budget slash. But the design is still a spectacular achievement. From the air it may look like a king-size mattress pad, but from ground level the thing it most resembles is a moon crater roofed over with a shallow, translucent dome. The pavilion covers an oval area approximately the size of two football fields. Its solid, earth-filled walls...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Design for Osaka | 11/28/1969 | See Source »

...work now in the works is a lox-pink ice bag, 18 ft. in diameter, for the U.S. Pavilion at the World's Fair at Osaka next year. A motor inside will cause the ice bag to tilt, inflate, undulate and deflate on a continuous cycle. As an object, it is funny, anthropomorphic and intellectual all at once. It qualifies as kinetic or soft or Pop sculpture...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: The Venerability of Pop | 10/10/1969 | See Source »

...Barcelona pavilion, a low-slung one-story jewel brilliantly combining such elegant materials as travertine, Tinian marble, gray glass, onyx and steel, was Mies' first major public building to demonstrate many of these concepts. It immediately established its designer as a master. The following year he replaced Walter Gropius as the director of the Dessau Bauhaus, only to close up the experimental workshop three years later in protest against Nazi restrictions. In 1938, an invitation to head the school of architecture at the Armour Institute (since renamed the Illinois Institute of Technology) led Mies to Chicago and the full...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Mies van der Rohe: Disciplinarian for a Confused Age | 8/29/1969 | See Source »

When no existing furniture quite matched the modern grandeur of his Barcelona pavilion, he designed his own tables, stools and chairs in leather, steel and glass-which have since become classics in themselves. For Manhattan's Seagram Building, in its muted bronze and pink-glass majesty the country's most handsome office building, he had a mock-up made of the bronze mullions that hold the vertical windows in place. They are H-shaped in cross section, and Mies elaborately studied the dimensions of their outer edge for the shadow line it would cast on the enclosed windows...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Mies van der Rohe: Disciplinarian for a Confused Age | 8/29/1969 | See Source »

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