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...developing a "strategy of accomplishment," U.S. architects can draw on a whole arsenal of technology: precast concrete beams that span 100 ft.; cable-hung roofs that carry across distances of 420 ft.; mass-production assembling techniques; and a rapidly expanding range of building materials, from glare-reducing glass and spun plastic to rust-sealing steel. Concrete used as a finished material is already giving visual variety to the city. "It is the most important change in the art of building since World War II," says Architect Marcel Breuer. "You can sculpt concrete, you can mold it, chisel it, increase...
Factory Furnished. The process is remarkably efficient because every guest room is not only precast but completely pre-equipped. Everything from plumbing and wiring to light bulbs, bed linen and furniture (which is bolted to the floor or walls) is installed before the rooms leave a factory-like production line seven miles from the site. To allow workmen space to repair pipes and wires in later years, the room modules are set 20 inches apart and the resulting gaps in the hotel's facade are filled with brick. To provide corridors, the back of each room module comes with...
...University has decided not to cover the outside of the Tenth House, Mather, with an experimental tile finish. The building's exterior will now be precast concrete--about $200,000 cheaper...
...hardly could be, for rarely, if ever, has a better survey of American art been assembled under one roof. But what won over the first nighters was Breuer's dramatic exterior combined with spacious, almost handcrafted interiors, including white canvas and plywood walls, split bluestone floors, and precast concrete grid ceilings, that seemed to recede impassively behind the art works on display...
...France as in most of Europe, cranes and precast concrete wall sections enable increasing numbers of tall apartment buildings to be built swiftly. But single homes have resisted the industrial techniques that are commonplace in the U.S. Contractors get in one another's way, run out of materials, even quit to work on a second project before they finish the first one. Workmen, though skilled, handcraft things the way their grandfathers did. The result: low output at high cost. Levitt, who will use 99% French-made materials and equipment, is gambling that he can teach his French contractors...