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What caused the problem? With a number of lawsuits possibly in the offing, no one is saying. But last week Hancock and its architects, I.M. Pei & Partners, announced a solution. Over a period of seven months, every single window will be replaced with heat-treated glass of the kind used in safety doors. The estimated cost: between...
...year delay wreaked havoc on the Library Corporation's original goals. The general inflationary trend, combined with the skyrocketing increase in building costs, whittled the $27 million project to half its original size. Architect I.M. Pei designed a museum sheltered under an 85-foot high truncated glass pyramid, attached to a five-story semicircle housing the actual archives, the Kennedy Institute of Politics and the Kennedy School of Government...
Debate has focused on the museum and the "related facilities" building designed to bring tax revenue to the city. Although Pei has termed the related facilities area vital to the spirit of the entire development, the corporation and the city have been unable to agree on what to build there. The Library Corporation has offered three proposals--condominium apartments, a parking lot, and, most recently, a hotel-motel. This confusion typifies the lack of coordinated planning and sensitivity to the city's needs that have marked the corporation's approach to the library...
...original date for occupancy by the Hancock Company and three leasers was February 1973. The replacing of the windows with the special glass, which was recommended by architects I.M. Pei and Partners, a glass manufacturer and structural steel firm, is expected to begin shortly...
...Pei, 56, architect, from China