Word: plazas
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Built at an estimated cost of $35 million, the Seagram monument is set back on a twin-fountained, granite and marble plaza that serves as its pedestal. By day it is a soaring column the color of an old cannon; by night it is a giant, glowing shaft punctuating the Manhattan skyline (see color page). It is the definitive statement of what a skyscraper can be by the architect whom most purists hail as the master of glass-and-steel design: Chicago's German-born Ludwig Mies van der Rohe, 71 (TIME, June...
...maximum of economy. In the Seagram building, he did this with deceptive simplicity. To avoid the stairstep building plan that Manhattan architects have overused to meet zoning requirements (the tower must be only 25% of the site area), Mies sacrificed valuable Park Avenue frontage, threw open a wide plaza. This gave him an opportunity to create an accent of emptiness, at the same time gave his building a dramatic setting...
...last year the total was $10,767,000 (not including the $20 million building program at Redstone itself). Memorial Parkway, a new four-lane stretch of U.S. 231, is lined with housing developments, more than a dozen modern motels, a $3,000,000 shopping plaza (with a delicatessen featuring Wiener schnitzel), and two new schools. A pride of the community is the new 55-piece Huntsville Civic Orchestra-with Werner Kuers, one of Von Braun's old German rocket hands, as concertmaster...
...windowless service core, towering 80 ft. above the main structure, and sheathed in small panels of dull stainless steel. Architecturally, it is as striking as the building it serves. Unlike its street-crowding neighbors, the Inland structure is set back far enough to provide a small plaza...
...cops jumped aboard open riot trucks and headed for the city's downtown squares. Armed with rifles, bayonets, pistols, machetes and tear gas, they blocked off the narrow cobblestoned streets leading to the squares to keep rioters from gathering. A shiny red truck whipped along one side of Plaza Bolivar spraying demonstrators with high-pressure streams of water colored with red dye, then circled the plaza of El Silencio, center of earlier riots. When the truck left there was silence, except for the clink of soldiers' bayonets. Then the noise of gunfire rattled across the deserted city, first...