Word: piers
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...cheapest and best available building materials. The Italian who, above all others, has mastered concrete and raised it to a level where it can compete with marble and granite is not an architect (though he holds honorary degrees as such) but an engineer. He is restless, wrinkled, grey Pier Luigi Nervi, 66, whose soaring exhibition halls, breath-taking airplane hangars, utilitarian salt depots and tobacco warehouses are hailed by many as among the handsomest structures built in Europe in this century. One Italian critic has found an apt phrase to describe Nervi's work: "Poetry in concrete...
...dock to help speed its Thule. Greenland airbase. Standard construction methods would have taken two years. By prefabricating, De Long cut the total time to six months. Since then, the Defense Department has ordered 17 more docks worth $16 million, rushed two to replace a wood pier that burned at Whittier, Alaska, threatening military supply lines, two more to New port News, Va., when it turned out that no docks were big enough for the Navy's 60,000-ton supercarriers. Another job: the first "Texas Tower" radar island, no miles off Cape...
Born. To Marisa Pavan, 25, actress of screen (The Man in the Gray Flannel Suit) and TV (Antigone, Dominique), twin sister of Italian-born Cinemactress Pier Angeli, and Jean Pierre Aumont, 47, French cinemactor (The Seventh Sin): a son, their first child, his second; in Santa Monica. Name: Jean Claude. Weight...
...Harbor Development, has already added a mile-long dock, two grain elevators (total capacity: 13 million bu.), three modern cargo sheds (capacity: 300,000 sq. ft.), ten miles of railroad and five miles of access roads. Milwaukee is investing $11.2 million. Among its projects: a $5,500,000 steel pier that will jut 1,020 ft. into Lake Michigan and a $1,300,000 pier in the outer harbor. Duluth, working with $10 million allotted by the Minnesota legislature, will build eleven slips for deep-draft ships, expects to spend $30 million in all by 1965. Cleveland is budgeting...
...memorial will be constructed of white translucent marble, so that when the pavilion is lighted inside at night the floor of the plaza will glow in the dark. The jury, including such topflight architects as Ludwig Mies van der Rohe, Gordon Bunshaft, Joseé Luis Sert and Pier Luigi Nervi, was enthusiastic about Knight's design. Said Mies: "It is a noble project and will be a noble memorial...