Word: plazas
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...section of divided Berlin. On the East Berlin side, a few Vopos scuttled out of sight. Otherwise, East Berlin appeared empty-and dead. "This," said Bobby, echoing the reaction of every first visitor, "is even more shocking than I imagined it would be. Unbelievable." Driving on to City Hall Plaza, Bobby spoke to another 100,000 West Berliners. He gave them plenty of assurance. "An armed attack on West Berlin," he cried, "is the same thing as an armed attack on Chicago, New York, London or Paris. You are our brothers, and we will stand...
...will be the simplest skyscraper statement in New York," a "vertical leap of masonry and glass." In a "return to solid, massive strength," the structure will be made of granite-clad reinforced concrete instead of structural steel, rising without a break in line from the green-granite faced, sunken plaza surrounding it. Triangular columns carrying wiring, heating and air ducts will rise in the tower's four faces, breaking up the expanse of shimmering glass that gives a cellophane-wrapped look to much that is modern...
...More Wedding Cakes. The CBS Building is one of the first to be built under New York's new zoning resolution, which rewards builders for foot-traffic space in the plaza by allowing a higher, unbroken climb. The old zoning resolution required setbacks as the building rose, and cursed the city with scores of massive wedding cakes that filled their building sites to the sidewalks and threw away all sense of height...
...building's site, at West 52nd Street and the Avenue of the Americas, is only two blocks from NBC's 70-story skyscraper in Rockefeller Center. Thus a main goal of the architecture is to make CBS look distinguished in comparison to its lofty rival. The sunken plaza that consumes almost half the space of the tract not only singles the building out but draws the eye downward before it turns upward, adding to the effect of rise...
...break; there was hopeful-overhopeful-talk of similar break-offs by the six remaining Latin nations that still have embassies in Havana. Castro had already made his reaction clear enough on the subject by assembling 1,000,000 (by Cuban count) people in Havana's Plaza de la Revolución. Cried Castro: "The OAS was unmasked for what it is-Yankee Ministry of Colonies and a military bloc against the peoples of Latin America...