Word: plazas
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...volume, value and variety is unmatched in the history of the human race. Even oldtime Manhattanites have been startled into a sharp awareness of their city's dramatic angularity and inexhaustible enterprise as they peer at it from their new tower offices, or come upon an open plaza where once there was only a narrow sidewalk...
...world, but even the old soil that was the birthplace of the skyscraper has sprouted new towers. The area received a massive booster shot this year with the completion of David Rockefeller's 60-story Chase Manhattan Bank Building, packed with modern art and surrounded by a plaza roughly the size of Venice's Piazza San Marco. The dancing glass wall of No. 2 Broadway brings a note of new brightness to the area's soot-stained limestone. And last week Architect Minoru Yamasaki was commissioned to design the $270 million World Trade Center, which will occupy...
...Business. One of the most light-hearted round buildings in the U.S. is a bank: the little Wells Fargo branch gracing the plaza of the glassy, curtain-walled Crown Zellerbach Building in San Francisco. Architect Peter Kitchell. design head of the bank for Skidmore, Owings & Merrill, turns a deaf ear to critics who grump that the bank, with its fluted roof and carousel airiness, is wrong for its setting at the foot of the zooming Zellerbach tower. Says he: "The essence of our bank is its simple shape. The Wells Fargo people love it; the first manager there treated...
...Hotel Plaza-a last-minute replacement for ailing Singer Katyna Ranieri. The Plaza usually prefers its singers female and sophisticated-Hildegarde, say, or Eartha Kitt-but Stuarti was a hit from the first...
...City with the more practical aim of selling Chase spectacularly. While other banks were deserting the crowded downtown financial district for roomy midtown offices, David defiantly bought a chunk of downtown land that Morgan Guaranty Trust had decided was too waterlogged to build on. The result: the Chase Manhattan Plaza, where lower Manhattan's first good-looking new building in half a century sits in the midst of a spacious, tree-studded terrazzo terrace. The new Chase headquarters has the nation's biggest bank vault in the biggest underground banking area, the biggest automatic check-sorting center, the biggest...