Word: precasting
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...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...
...over page), also goes all out for adornment. "I want my buildings to be exuberant," says the 42-year-old architect, who also is an abstract painter. His industrial structure too is a box, 200 ft. by 200 ft. square. But with its elaborate zigzag carapace of sand-pink precast concrete blocks, Lundy's building proclaims the architect's belief in sculptural architecture. "The building is sassy, square and solid," says Lundy. "It says...
...comparison the smaller $1,000,000 Dublin embassy, designed by Connecticut Architect John M. Johansen, is exciting in design and construction. Its cylindrical shape, on a 110-ft. diameter, presents, says Johansen, a "façade that turns its back on no one." Made of concrete precast in Holland, the basic structural element is a twisted I, which, multiplied and dovetailed together, turns window frames into walls...
...company and stays on to guide it with its own hand-picked management team. It has brought a dramatic revival to Farm-Machinery Maker Massey-Ferguson (TIME, June 15), organized Dominion Tar & Chemical Co. into a $340 million sales giant that makes everything from table salt to precast concrete, and built Dominion Stores into Canada's largest supermarket chain (350 stores). Argus also controls Canadian gold and iron mines, plywood and lumber mills, shopping centers, a satellite city, Canada's largest radio station (Toronto's CFRB) and Canadian Breweries (Carling's), the world's largest...
...cantilevered out over the offices on either side. This is ingenious, but Yamasaki turned the roof into a parade of jitterbugging triangles that induce not serenity but instant fatigue. As for the Wayne State University College of Education Building, with its nonstructural facade of 120 faintly Arabian slabs of precast concrete. Yamasaki (who gets carried away by his own jokes) rendered the crudest verdict. When he presented the model to the Wayne board of governors, he pulled out from his pocket a little wedding-cake bride and groom and placed the pair on top. "Twittering Aviary." Because of this obsession...