Word: rectangularity
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...same time imaginative, architects today. Rejecting the cult of the cube as the answer to every problem, he made his M.I.T. auditorium a billowing, white shell of concrete, resting on three points, in which the acoustic elements could be placed. His questioning ("Need a church be rectangular?") produced M.I.T.'s cylindrical brick hatbox chapel, lighted from a single honeycomb skylight above and light bounced up from the narrow, containing moat through low arches to give the interior a grotto-like mystery and calm...
...luxurious rectangular box that is the Waldorf-Astoria's Empire Room, a wellrounded, balding businessman in spectacles put a clarinet to his lips and once again became a famous living trademark. Behind him 13 instruments exploded in the old Goodman theme song Let's Dance, and the guests at the Empire Room's tables began to feel wonderful. A surprised young waiter nearly dropped the filet mignon Benny he was serving. "For this room-so loud!" he whispered...
Piercing the hollow, curving south facade were 27 deep-set, rectangular openings, decorated by stained glass designed by Le Corbusier. The broad church door also bore a symbolic painting by Le Corbusier, done in enamel. Capping it all was a swelling, sausage-roll roof from which extends a mighty spout to carry rain water to a concrete tank. Said Abbé Besançon, one of Ronchamp's priests: the church is "ungodly and ungainly...
...other Pitman models on the same floor show University and town buildings around what is now Harvard Square as they were in 1667 and 1775. Nearly 900 hand-carved buildings in the 1936 miniature stand on a 100 pound 11 x 4 feet rectangular base. The most difficult of these to make, according to the artists who worked on the model, was the replice, of massive and Victories Memorial Hall, in the Lillipulian Version, its 305 feet length is reducted to about six inches, with the spire rising to a height of 4 1/2 inches. The spire, and buttresses...
...Comet. On the heels of a final report placing the blame for two Comet I crashes off Italy on metal fatigue, de Havilland announced that it will go ahead with construction of the Comet II and III. They will have such improvements as thicker skins, oval instead of rectangular windows, to correct the faulty design that caused the Comet I to explode in midair. De Havilland set no delivery dates, but the first plane will probably not be ready before...