Word: precast
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...began to turn out plans for buildings whose distinguishing features are precast concrete coaxed into graceful curves and lacelike delicacy, a box-shaped podium for a base, a surrounding pool, a gemlike skylight. "In our buildings,'' says Yamasaki, "we try to think of what happens to a human being as he goes from space to space, and to provide the delight of change and surprise...
...Limit. The packaged pool is the fastest-growing part of the market. Rudd's National Pool Equipment Co. of Florence, Ala. is specializing in precast, prestressed concrete-pool packages, complete with diving board and vacuum cleaner, delivered via truck to any backyard in the land for as little as $2,000. From International Swimming Pool Corp. (1958 sales: $12 million) this year has come a line of pools built above ground. Priced from $2,995 to $4,995, the pools consist of a thin, vinyl plastic sheet stretched over a plywood-and-steel frame that is supported...
...Banque Lambert, Brussels, a project designed by Skidmore, Owings & Merrill's top designer, Gordon Bunshaft (whose Lever House was the ultimate in glass slabs), with Engineer Paul Weidlinger. Using precast, prestressed concrete with great discipline, Bunshaft has created a rhythmical façade with all the richness of an Italian palazzo...
...facade of the building will be a lattice of precast finely-finished architectural concrete with panels of different colors to give variety," the University revealed. By breaking the large structure into units of smaller and varying facades, both texturally and structurally, the monolithic feeling of a normal ten-story building will be avoided...
...exposed in transparent, jewel-colored flesh. Dedicated last week, the $1.5 million, six-story-high structure seats 800 people in a Gothic-spirited interior with a steel-reinforced frame standing out as part of the decor. There are no buttress-type supports, and the sharp-sloping walls, of interlaced, precast concrete panels, are embedded at midsection and tail with 20,000 inch-thick, stained-glass chunks. It is the first church designed by Skyscraper Architect Wallace K. Harrison (U.N. Building, Rockefeller Center...