Word: roof
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...other ways the tinted glass is an unfortunate compromise. It does not eliminate the need for curtains, as the architect apparently hoped. In spite of the overhanging roof, late afternoon sunlight streams into the west side of the library and the west-facing courtyard offices on the upper floors. While this period is not popular among students for work, it is a favorite time for the faculty members, who like to drop by for a few hours after afternoon classes. When the sun hits the offices they are caught in a spotlight and as their rooms heat up they cannot...
Jungle Identity. Not that the exhibition within-"Art of the United States: 1670-1966"-was overlooked. It hardly could be, for rarely, if ever, has a better survey of American art been assembled under one roof. But what won over the first nighters was Breuer's dramatic exterior combined with spacious, almost handcrafted interiors, including white canvas and plywood walls, split bluestone floors, and precast concrete grid ceilings, that seemed to recede impassively behind the art works on display...
...complex will be called the John F. Kennedy School of Government, and, will include under its roof all the offices now located in the Littauer Center of Public Administration, the projected International Studies Building, which was to be constructed next to Littauer, and the John F. Kennedy Institute of Politics...
...Just before 10 p.m. as the Mayor left the neighborhood, 30 white demonstrators from the Society for the Prevention of Negroes Getting Everything (SPONGE) chased 25 Negro counter-demonstrators for several blocks. A few minutes later, a sniper shot and killed an 11-year-old Negro boy from the roof of a near-by building...
...clear that the University's contribution to the Memorial will be great, both physically and financially. The new building, bringing under its roof all the facilities in Littauer plus the activities projected for the International Studies Center (it was scheduled to be about the size of William James), with room for an expansion of about one third, will cost something more than $12 million. In contrast, the three original segments of the Memorial momplex -- the Archive, the Museum, and the Institute of Politics -- will only cost between $10 and $13 million...