Word: plazas
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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SPAIN. The fair's blue-ribbon pavilion puts on a five-star show of art and culture: in the gallery, Goya's great majas and paintings by El Greco, Velasquez, Picasso and Miro; in the breezy interior terraces, sculpture and murals by modern abstractionists; in the Market Plaza, native-costumed folk dancers...
...baked plaza behind the U.S. Capitol, TV vans hummed like hungry insects. Marching in disorderly array up the steps to the Senate cham ber came group upon group of summer tourists, sunglasses on and cameras slung high. Inside, the Senate gallery was packed...
...nest of plastic in the tops of metal trees. Johnson's Wax has suspended a huge gold clam over a blue pool inside six slender white pylons that rise high and flare into unearthly petals. Eastman Kodak has built a plaza under an undulating roof of thin-shell concrete that plays hide-and-seek with geometry, now duncing up into conical pinnacles, now forming a hole so that real and artificial rains can pour through onto Sculptor Harry Bertoia's metal flowers below. People can walk up and down dale on the roof. Young boys go there...
There are many other places to eat rapidly without surrendering to the hamburger and hot-dog stands, most notably in the International Plaza, a busy jumble of closely packed shops and food counters. The corner-lot boomtime atmosphere is a pleasant change from the more ordered pace of the rest of the fair. Ecuadorian banana dogs cost 50?, Norwegian loganberry punch 25?, and a 99? Belgian waffle covered with fresh whipped cream and fresh strawberries can be a meal in itself. Peptic athletes can eat Egg Foo Yumburgers, Fishwiches, and frankfurters packed in cornmeal, and wet it all down with...
...more than the Treasury is needed, so they would create a great National Square that gives a distinguished destination for the avenue, provides access through a monumental gate to the White House grounds, and offers a car-free plaza for people afoot. Halfway between there and the Capitol, they take advantage of the fact that the National Gallery and the Archives Building now sit facing each other unrelatedly on opposite sides of the avenue, and would create another big Market Square that gives vistas of the façades of both buildings...