Word: roof
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Raise High the Roof Beam, Salinger...
...Raise High the Roof Beam, Carpenters and Seymour An Introduction, Salinger...
...roof of the largest building, which stretches tunnel-like nearly 1,700 ft., is concrete poured over short, cylindrical shell forms and troweled by hand. A second building is basically an airy vault-a 200-ft. structure with two rows of nine columns running along each side. Because of the constant salt spray in the air, a steel building would have wasted a fortune in maintenance, and, in any case, this structure in concrete costs about 20% less. But, as always, Candela will pronounce it good only if it works. "It will not be me but Alcoa that decides...
...soaring geometry speak for itself, but with churches, he admits with a grin, "we refine a little." One of his most beautiful is the chapel in Lomas de Cuernavaca, done with Architect Guillermo Rosell. It is a pure hyperbolic paraboloid whose slender edges seem to float free and whose roof slopes from each end down to a skylight. Guarded by a tapering cross, it stands upon a lonely hill, surging toward the sky-a modern version of the mighty Gothic reach...
...Swedes do not expect to have an easy time, but they have found no reason why the work cannot be done. When the walls and roof have been freed from the rock around them, they will be sawed into chunks weighing not more than 30 tons each. Some of the pieces will be split apart and the breaks joined later. Blocks that are weak will be held together by bolts. Cranes will lift them one by one and deposit them gently on beds of sand on top of the cliff, where they will be wrapped in plastic sheeting to protect...