Word: pirellis
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...architectural journal; of cancer; in Milan. Ponti's varied projects included a villa for the Shah of Iran, a ministry of industrial development for Iraq, and the auditorium of the Time-Life Building in Manhattan. But his best-known structure is Milan's 420-ft. wafer-thin Pirelli building, which towers higher than any other in Italy. A stalwart debunker of design cliches and a champion of functionalism, Ponti created scooper-like dinner forks, glass bookshelves in which the volumes seem to float, and an austere double bed. A bed, he said, "isn't only a place...
...Group of Ten, who is credited with the invention of Special Drawing Rights, and Mario Ercolani, also 61, until now head of the bank's foreign exchange operations. The new team appears to have won the approval of Italy's business community. Says Tire Maker Leopoldo Pirelli: "While one regrets that Carli is leaving, his successors represent the best solution." For his part, Carli vows that he will not follow the customary practice of lingering in the bank's corridors as an honorary governor. Instead, some observers suggest, he may become a politician...
Dead Serious. Now engineers have devised a solution that sounds like the punch line of some sort of Italian joke: rubber dams. But the sponsors of the plan-Pirelli, the famous tire company, and Furlanis, a construction firm-are dead serious about it. They propose installing hollow, expandable dams made of rubber-coated fabric across the three channels. The dams, which would measure from 1,698 ft. to 3,000 ft. in length, would lie on the seabed, held firmly in place by steel cables anchored to concrete pilings. Most of the time they would remain flat, allowing ships...
...project is technically feasible," says Pirelli Engineer Attilio Angioletti. Lab tests have shown that the tirelike rubber fabric has a tensile strength of 2.5 tons per sq. in.-enough to withstand the battering of any sea. To test the system further, Pirelli and Furlanis are now building a 220-ft.-long "baby" dam at the mouth of another lagoon. If it works as well as expected, the Italian government will consider funding dighe di gomma for Venice...
...mergers have proved disappointing lately for such huge European companies as Dunlop Pirelli and British Leyland, but France's second and third biggest auto makers remain undaunted. Last week Peugeot and Citroën announced a kind of corporate engagement. Financial terms and most other aspects of the proposed merger were left vague by the companies' spectacularly uninformative statement, but one thing is clear: the merged firm will be a giant. Sales of the two companies now total about $4 billion a year, a figure running fender-to-fender with Daimler-Benz and outranked in the European auto...