Word: plazas
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...reading the law literally, has underwritten the construction of many luxury buildings. Even if such buildings replace slums, they offer no new housing for uprooted residents, who must move to other slum neighborhoods. And some of the projects, like the Barrington Plaza apartments in a high-rent section of Los Angeles, are not even near blighted areas...
True, from the start the Met trips over itself in rushing for grandeur. The facade, keystone to Lincoln Center's plaza, is immediately striking with its five soaring bays. But working with all their pastel might against the uplifting effect of stone and glass are two Chagall murals placed behind the tall windows. If you pasted the Last Judgment on the front of the Parthenon, it wouldn't do either one any good...
Inside the Barrier. Back at An Khe (pop. 12,000), the division has created a home away from home. Last week business was booming in An Khe Plaza, the sanitary "Sin City" that houses bars and brothels under strict Army medical supervision (TIME, May 6). Highway 19, the east-west road that was once controlled by Communist ambushes, is now open all the way from Qui Nhon. In General Norton's tidy mess on "the Hill," a high-rise hummock that houses division headquarters, officers show up at dinner in gleaming boots and bright, gold-and-black scarves...
...stretches 451 ft. from front door to rear window-as long as a 47-story building is high. The gracefully arching fagade, soaring 96 ft. in cathedral-like splendor between the glass-and-marble rectangles of the New York State Theater and Philharmonic Hall, dominates the surrounding plaza like a queen among princesses. It is a fittingly magnificent capstone to Lincoln Center: the world's largest opera house set in the world's largest cultural complex. It is, moreover, a fitting memorial to an enduring art, for it symbolizes, if not a resurgence of opera (for opera...
Siesta & Small Talk. The project all began, Hartmann said, three years ago, when the architects decided that the 85,000-sq.-ft. Civic Plaza called for "an important piece of sculpture." Why not go right to the top, approach Picasso? Armed with models of the building and photographs of Chicago, Hartmann descended upon the artist's villa at Mougins on the French Riviera. Though Picasso had never been to Chicago-or, for that matter, to the U.S.-he delightedly recognized pictures of Carl Sandburg and Ernest Hemingway. "Mon ami Hemingway," he exclaimed, then explained that he had taught...