Word: plazas
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...with an awed and respectful hush. Against the stark Miesian geometry of the Civic Center stood a majestic monument, its massive metal features-relieved by lacy rods-matching the building's rust-colored Cor-Ten steel girders. Picasso's work gracefully dominated the 78,000-sq.-ft. plaza as much by its delicate airiness as by its mass-both a contrast to the rectilinear building and a foil to the splashing fountains. Said Chicago Architect William Hartmann, who originally had persuaded the 85-year-old artist to design the sculpture (gratis) for Chicago: "Picasso's magic...
Forlorn but dignified, the Plaza Hotel faced the mob. All morning long the radio had been urging every potential truant in New York to show up at 59th Street and Fifth. ("The Beatles are now over Newfoundland; touchdown minus 71 minutes on our Beatles Countdown.") By two o'clock there were 3,000 girl teenagers, 1,000 boy teenagers, and 13 press agents...
...agents were busy turning sporadic yells into the firm, rythmic roar you hear in propaganda films. Wherever there was a television camera, the press agents urged the girls to "scream now" and paid the lucky ones 25 dollars to faint on cue. When the Beatles finally arrived at the Plaza, the crowd charged and nearly killed the chauffeur and two doormen. The PR men sighed with relief. Through a mixture of circus press-agentry and true love, the Beatles were already, on their first day in America, becoming more popular than Jesus...
...sculptural as any created by Isamu Noguchi and so vast that Frank Lloyd Wright's Guggenheim Museum would drop neatly into the hole. The new five-level museum will add a revolution ary new presence, from its coffered concrete underside (the museum will actually "float" above its plaza on four muscular piers) to its eccentric center court, purposely designed off-center so that galleries on the upper floors will be of varying depths and shapes...
...central promenades and the Canadian and theme pavilions; Canadian industry kicked in with another $1,500,000 worth of commissions for more than 15 sculptors. All are Canadians except for the U.S.'s Alexander Calder, whose gigantic $200,000 stainless steel Man on the International Nickel Co. plaza greets Expo visitors as they get off the metro at the Place des Nations...