Word: roofs
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...borders, and called it "The Cursed Foundry." At 7:30 on the evening of Jan. 7, in Cornigliano's big, new cold-rolling mill, a maintenance worker yelled, "Look out!" Two minutes later, with a giant crashing and a bending of massive girders, the mill's null roof lay shattered on the floor, and Italy's steel comeback was set back a year and a half...
Some blamed four inches of snow blanketing the roof, but this was not an unseasonal load, and the roof should have carried it easily. Others in Genoa's streets muttered darkly of profiteers. Last week, as investigators combed the wreckage, Cornigliano suspended all its building contractors until it determined whether bad design, faulty materials or sabotage caused the disaster. All Italy was downcast save for the Reds, who crowed that this was only what one might expect of "The Cursed Foundry...
...looks like a scene of mis placed industrialism. A great cloud of steam rises from a pond of hot water, and near by stands a forbidding building of blank-walled concrete. It looks like a powerhouse, but no smoke comes from the six short stacks sticking out of its roof (they are emergency ventilators). The building, nevertheless, is a powerhouse-the first nuclear powerhouse of the Atomic...
...architect for Brandeis and has remodeled the University of Michigan. Planned when the Korean war was going full blast and seemed interminable, Saarinen had to figure out a way to make an auditorium without using too much steel and still not have too many supporting columns. The "floating" concrete roof proved to be the answer. Designed on roughly the same principles as New York's Hayden Planetarium, the auditorium is unique in that there are only three points of support for the dome. In order to support the triangular roof, the theater is wedge-shaped. The main auditorium...
Workmen will begin pouring the concrete for the roof on Monday, and the whole auditorium is scheduled to be finished by July. Even aside from designing, it is a curious building, for it indicates a certain state of mind of the builders. In feeling that M.I.T. should innovate architecturally, they have spent the better part of two million dollars in creating a sweeping modern building and then balked at spending the last thousands which would give the stage a flexibility that the unregimented tastes of students demand...