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Another project for the State University of New York, this time for the Fredonia campus near Lake Erie, makes a totally different kind of impression Designed by I.M. Pei & Partners, the strikingly handsome new buildings-smooth concrete structures of unusual shapes-seem refined almost to the point of classicism. Yet the buildings form only part of the architect's real achievement-the reorganization, expansion and enlivening of a dreary college of 1,500 students. Even the site was challenging. Fredonia sprawled over a bleak landscape devoid of trees, natural features or lasting interest...
...solution was planning, a specialty of the Pei office. Henry Cobb, partner in charge, started by creating a visual frame. He designed a poplar-lined road that traces an almost complete circle from a cluster of old buildings to the outermost playing fields and back again. Then he intercepted the circle with five new academic buildings (a student center, lecture hall, library, administration building and arts center) set along an angular pedestrian "spine." These new buildings gave personality and vigor to the college and landscape, thus resolving Fredonia's great problem of formless anonymity. Moreover, they never turn their...
Together with Architect I.M. Pei, he helped rebuild whole sections of Denver and Dallas. The two men were also prime movers in the renovation of southwest Washington, D.C., which began in the early 50s, and in the planning and building of the imposing Place Ville-Marie in Montreal. Zeckendorf devotes a major part of his book to detailing each venture. Outer leases, inner leases, sandwich leases, varieties of mortgages and credit, fees simple and not so simple-all are juggled so adeptly that even if the layman doesn't fully understand them, he is dazzled by the performance...
...trouble isn't so much that these buildings are ugly in themselves: it's more that they ignore all but commercial considerations. Both towers are advertisements. The John Hancock Tower will be the taller and louder of the two. Designed by Henry Cobb of I.M. Pei and Partners, it is a sheer glass rhomboid from the sidewalk to the top of its 60th story...
...MBTA agreement Friday was expected to end over four years of fighting and delay in building the new library. Once the car barns are moved, construction of the library will still take three and one-half years, according to library designer I. M. Pei...