Word: projects
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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From the very beginning, the project was sloppily handled. Of the three men who submitted the report, two were directors of agencies and thus incapable of conducting and objective study. While the practice of having members of the group being investigated represented on the investigating body may have some merit, it is a decidedly poor practice to give them a majority...
...disclosure came while members of the Cambridge Redevelopment Authority were appearing before the Council's Finance Committee seeking an appropriation of $107,436 as the city's share in the Riverview Urban Renewal project...
...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...
Significantly, nearly every future project in the Form Givers exhibition is conceived in prestressed concrete. What attracts architects is the possibility of once again giving buildings a sculptured rather than a thinned-down look. As they move into a new world of tapered columns, arches and warped shells, engineers are once again welcomed back into drafting rooms, bringing with them new and daring structural solutions...
...rise, says he, is a simple one. "When the top officers know that a company has taken a turn for the better, they start buying the stock themselves, or tell their friends. This buying shows up on the chart. As a new pattern forms, it is not hard to project what the stock should...