Word: rhomboid
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...scissors chomp into the metalicized surface of the cardboard. Two or three snips later a rhomboid shape drops free. Fingers pick it up and start crimping and bending it, propping it against the toy-sized model building. Eventually, it is taped to the little construct (think of it as a three-dimensional sketch) and the architect, Frank Gehry, starts musing about what it does - and does not do - for his design. By and large, he seems, tentatively, to like its effect more than he dislikes it. For the moment, it stays...
...make me president, I'll make it a rhomboid office like offices should...
...that is just what Cobb set out to do. In constructing the rhomboid building, the Pei partner created a building that seems inoffensive and one-dimensional from all sides. One of the men who examined the original plans, Ahern, said that the models "looked like a piece of wood covered with cigar wrappers. It looked pretty bad in the model but once built with those reflecting windows, it looked pretty vibrant and exciting." Rick Heym, president of Enviro-Design Group in Cambridge, also said that the bulding was deceptive on paper. "It looked like it would be inappropriate...
...rhomboid-shaped, mirror-walled building, it rises 60 stories from a site on Copley Square and looms over the elegant, residential Back Bay district. As soon as the project was announced in 1967, local architects attacked it as a disfiguration of the whole area. The building's size-1.6 million sq. ft. of office space-seemed sure to destroy the charm and intimate scale of Copley Square, formed mainly by Charles McKim's stately, neo-Renaissance Public Library and H.H. Richardson's Romanesque Trinity Church. Boston officials urged Hancock to reconsider its plans, but the company threatened...
...much that these buildings are ugly in themselves: it's more that they ignore all but commercial considerations. Both towers are advertisements. The John Hancock Tower will be the taller and louder of the two. Designed by Henry Cobb of I.M. Pei and Partners, it is a sheer glass rhomboid from the sidewalk to the top of its 60th story...