Word: rotundas
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Treasury, and Architect John Russell Pope. The building alone cost $15,000,000; the art masterpieces that went with it were valued at $50,000,000. The Gallery, which spread its great, windowless length 782 ft. along Constitution Avenue, diagonally opposite the Smithsonian Institution, had a massive rotunda patterned after the Pantheon in Rome...
This week a crowd of 8,000 people poured through the pillared rotunda and milled through the vaulted halls. In the name of the nation, President Roosevelt accepted the museum from Paul Mellon, son of Andrew...
...galleries on the main floor, light fell with scientifically controlled evenness through laminated glass skylights, which let in diffused sunlight by day, artificial sunlight by night. In the basement, a Dali dream of convoluted pipes and fans air-conditioned the whole building, from the soaring spaces of the rotunda to the tiled cafeteria where staff and public could snatch a sandwich between expeditions...
...life, Gutzon Borglum was fascinated by bigness. His statue of Abraham Lincoln in the rotunda of the Capitol at Washington was carved from the largest block of marble he could find. His Wars of America, in Newark, N. J., was at one time the largest bronze group in the U. S. Mount Rushmore was a big enough monolith to satisfy even Borglum. Said he: "There is something in sheer volume that awes and terrifies, lifts us out of ourselves, something that relates us to God and to what is greatest in our evolving universe...
...around the world. Today he sells four sizes of ice cubes - rice, chestnut, nut, egg. For 45? he gives 20-minute delivery of 100 cubes plus a cocktail recipe. His record order was for a 1936 jamboree of 3,000 delegates to the Third World Power Conference in the rotunda of Washington's Union Station, where Iceman Uline deposited 25 tons of ice cubes...