Word: roof
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Penn Central leased the airspace above the terminal to a British corporation that wanted to erect an office building on the site. Penn Central submitted to the landmarks commission two plans by Marcel Breuer. One envisioned a 55-story concrete skyscraper floating incongruously above the terminal's mansard roof. The other called for tearing down the facade of the old building and partly encasing the terminal in a 53-story glass-and-steel box. When the city rejected both designs, Penn Central went to court, claiming that its property rights had been violated. Although the trial court ruled...
Most of the excavated timber fragments are badly charred. But enough evidence remains to show that the structure was 24 meters (78 ft.) long, 12 meters (39 ft.) wide and covered by a roof that rose some 9 meters (30 ft.) above the ground. It had such distinctive architectural details as bowed end walls, a building style usually associated with structures of the Dark Ages. Just as remarkable, the diggers turned up traces of barley seed, which indicate that the Neolithic builders were skilled agriculturists and perhaps even had domesticated farm animals...
...evicted, and not until late April could Schlesinger himself move in. So far he has been able to gather in 200 DOE officials-"We now have a bridgehead," cracks Schlesinger -but it will be at least another year before DOE'S 5,000 headquarters staffers are under one roof...
...proposed site of a new Radcliffe gymnasium. The residents lobbied the City Council to change the zoning regulations on the area, in an attempt to halt the planned expansion. Radcliffe, meanwhile, pushed for completion of the project, as the residents' delaying tactics pushed projected costs up through the gym roof...
...were friendly and helpful. In Butte, Mont., a supervisor led the Dantzics around a mine for two days to find the right vantage point; in San Antonio a cop held up traffic while they took a picture of the Alamo; in Albuquerque a bank president escorted them to the roof of his bank to scout the view. Only in New York City, says Dantzic, was "getting on someone's roof a major hassle. They think you're a jumper...