Word: roof
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Except for the steel skeleton, almost the entire building is aluminum. Stamped aluminum panels cover the girders; there are aluminum partitions, woven-aluminum lighting fixtures, aluminum wires to carry the electricity, bright-colored aluminum strips for the roof terraces. ("Who knows?" muses Harrison. "Maybe someday we'll have cities colored like rainbows.") The huge, 300-ton aluminum and glass lobby is suspended like a giant weight by cantilever girders from the rest of the building. There is a radical new air-conditioning system that cools like a radiant-heating plant; cold water is pumped through small pipes, thus eliminating...
...walls again. Ideally, the construction would be reinforced concrete, but it can be made of wood as well. Apart from a study and two mezzanines, the rooms are separated only by movable walls. Another innovation: a set of prisms called a "color clock," which peers out of the roof like an observatory telescope, catches the sun's rays and reflects the spectrum colors into the house; as the sun's position changes, so do the refracted colors. Conceivably, Endless House owners would be able to tell time by the color clock, e.g., "half-past blue," "a quarter...
...most universities there are separate schools for each of the three. At Harvard we have tried to keep all of them together under one roof, and thus profit by the essential unity...
...bearskin-draped living room before a fieldstone fireplace big enough to take 7-ft. logs, which were hauled automatically from the basement at the touch of a button. He went to bed at 9:30 every night to sleep under the stars, seen through the shatterproof glass roof of his bedroom...
Extra Precaution. In Los Angeles, when University of Southern California Professor Kenneth L. Trefftzs hired a contractor to build him a fireproof roof, a tar melting machine caught fire and burned down his house...