Word: roofs
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Aluminum Shingles. "Lifetime" aluminum roof shingles in six baked-enamel colors embossed with wood grain were announced by Reynolds Metals Co. The shingles interlock to withstand high winds. Price...
...carved timber." The locomotive ("abandoned before the war by an American film company [and] tied together by wire") is stoked "white-hot" by "hairy men in cloth caps who looked like Dostoevsky's publishers." At the stop of Slopsy Blob ("named after the famous Independence fighter"), the roof of the ambassadors' coach carries away most of the top of the station and lays the diplomatic heads open to a hail of fragmented woodwork. Crushed, splintered, bruised and filthy, the diplomats at last stagger forth at Zagreb to the notes of the liberation anthem sung by the partisan choir...
Carl Koch and Associates, Cambridge architects, are developing a flat rubber roof, inflated with compressed air, for possible use on the new threatre. Such a structure would be the only one of its kind in the world...
...drama of a stage set. Chicago's Ludwig Mies van der Rohe, 72, whom fellow architects rank with Le Corbusier and Frank Lloyd Wright, accepts neither form. In Mies's view, a museum should be composed only of "three basic elements-a floor slab, columns and a roof plate...
Last week Texans walking through the new Cullinan Hall found it good. The building is supported by four 82-ft.-long girders above the roof, leaving 10,000 sq. ft. of column-free space beneath a 30-ft. ceiling. Opening to the north is a curving façade of grey-tinted glass which has become the main museum entrance. In such stark simplicity, the touches of elegance-Roman travertine on the entrance stairs and terrace, green Venetian terrazzo floors-take on a rich but restrained resonance...