Word: ramp
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Whatever its architectural advantages, the building unquestionably also has several drawbacks. The fact that the University was unwilling to spend $10,000 or so for heating coils underneath the ramp, makes the ramp useless for some four months of winter each year. The colors on many of the brise-soleil, however attractive, modify the light in several areas of the studios making working in color extremely difficult. And, for those who find the building intriguing in such respects as its constantly changing appearance as one walks past it, there are probably as many who feel that its style fits poorly...
...those ends, Corbusier made the building singularly inviting from the outside by establishing a close inter-relationship between inside and out: the ramp, for example, arrives at the top of a platform which seems to be inside but is actually unenclosed; the outdoor patio on the ground level gives the impression of being enclosed; and the bay windows give those inside a close connection with the outside. He also created a large lobby and patio on the ground level with benches where people can meet...
...pedestrian ramp which passes through the center of the building appears in the designs which Le Corbusier submitted for the Palace of the Soviets in 1931, and was previously included in the Savoye Villa of Poissy, France. The interplay of levels which has come to characterize many of Le Corbusier's recent buildings is largely missing from the Visual Arts Center. The sculptured gracefulness of the Chapel of Ronchamp and the Phillips Pavilion of the Brussels World's Fair finds itself in an abbreviated form in the circular wings of the center and in a distant sort...
...struggles up a ramp that is like a staircase leading to the fourth floor of a building-the TU-114 is around 40 ft. high when standing on the ground. Inside the hatch, cabin follows cabin: a crew compartment; a large compartment empty of everything but a few suitcases, food hampers and cases of soft drinks; a serving pantry, with a galley down a flight of steps on a lower level. Then come the first-class compartments, four of them, each completely private. In contrast with the rest of the plane, where fittings are as spartan as those...
...apprentice back in Switzerland. It rests on pilotis that vary in size according to the weight they must bear. Each of the five floors seems different from the others, for the building is an enormously imaginative assortment of squares and rectangles broken by great sweeping curves. A ramp snakes up from Quincy Street through the third floor and spills out on to Prescott Street. Three floors have outdoor terraces, and each studio has a wall of glass...