Word: precasting
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Indeed, critics say that all of his buildings resemble each other: precast concrete with graceful curves and lacelike designs, a box-shaped podium for a base, and, inevitably, surrounding gardens that blend with the building. He has reshaped the Motor City's skyline so much that many feel historians will refer to the 1960s as "The Yamasaki Era in Detroit...
Nervi joints Felix Candela and R. Buckminster Fuller in sharing the Charles Eliot Norton Professorship this year. He is widely known for his innovations as a structural engineer, such as the thin precast and pre-stressed concrete shells that enclose many of his buildings...
Since ABC discovered that stupendous profits can be made through the production of stupendous mediocrity, the other two networks have conformed nicely, performing the difficult feat of lowering their own standards. From precooked oatmeal to precast bullets, everyone is importing packaged pap from Hollywood by the case. But above all, the 1961-62 television season may go down in history as the year that canned laughter made its greatest comeback. Every new sitchcom (adspeak for situation comedy) is a masterpiece of electronic control: three hees and a hah for a cracking knuckle or a lifted eyebrow, a two-decibel avalanche...
Always on Keel. The lifting will be slow and cautious. The 308 massive jacks will move less than one-tenth of an inch at a time. Each time the jacks have raised the mass about one foot, precast concrete pillars will be placed to take the weight. In 29 months, if all goes well, the temple with its giant figures and the rock enclosing its inner rooms will rise 203 ft., safely above the water. It will then be set into a rounded, natural-looking cap of artificial rock. The last step will be to construct in front...
Express the Uplift. Rudolph last year completed his second major building, Yale's Greeley Forestry Laboratory. To dramatize the strength of precast concrete, Rudolph opened up the capitals until they became widespread Ys. He winced when his building was promptly dubbed the "concrete orchard," but insisted stubbornly: "A column is really holding something up. It should express this uplift...