Word: piazza
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...birthplace of the skyscraper has sprouted new towers. The area received a massive booster shot this year with the completion of David Rockefeller's 60-story Chase Manhattan Bank Building, packed with modern art and surrounded by a plaza roughly the size of Venice's Piazza San Marco. The dancing glass wall of No. 2 Broadway brings a note of new brightness to the area's soot-stained limestone. And last week Architect Minoru Yamasaki was commissioned to design the $270 million World Trade Center, which will occupy a 15-acre site bounded by West, Barclay, Church...
Feeling like the sorcerer's apprentice, Carandente desperately sought to find some place for the gusher of art he had tapped. Finally he hit upon a ist century Roman amphitheater near Spoleto's Piazza della Liberta. A few days before the Festival of Two Worlds opened, an enormous truck lumbered into town from the Voltri mill groaning with no fewer than 25 pieces by David Smith...
Though the villa also has an excellent view of the 13th century cathedral campanile and the town piazza, Jackie will have to drive about 20 minutes to get to its beach house, or else gingerly descend 282 steps carved into the steep rock. Aside from swimming from the rocks (there is no beach), she will certainly have a chance to water...
...must change and probably not be absolutely repetitive and consistent." This produces a "system of arrested views." Wolfe feels that no vista should be longer than 600 ft. to 700 ft., as in what he calls "one of the most exciting walkways in the world": the route from the Piazza San Marco to the Rialto in Venice...
Born. To Marguerite Piazza, 35, Metropolitan Opera soprano turned nightclub diva; and Tennessee Snuffmaker William James Condon, 50: their fourth child (her sixth), third daughter; in Memphis...