Word: san
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...oversees a nationwide enterprise with offices in Chicago, New York City, San Francisco, Portland, Ore., and Washington, D.C. In his long career he has presided over more than $3 billion worth of construction. It began with the beaver board exuberance of the 1933 Chicago World's Fair. It led on to some of the largest and handsomest corporate structures anywhere, ranging from Manhattan's Lever House to San Francisco's Crown Zellerbach building. It raised Owings to national prominence as head of the presidential commission to replan the capital's Pennsylvania Avenue. Above all, Owings is engaged, along with many...
...observes, an aerial photograph of any major U.S. city makes it appear to be bombed out; vast areas are given over to empty plots and parking lots. These, plus railroad yards and even highways, would make ideal sites for future new towns within towns, of which projects such as San Francisco's Golden Gateway Center are only the earliest prototypes. Population will be dense, Owings admits, but city dwellers will get around more easily; traffic functions will be divided into layers, with pedestrians in the open air and rails and roads beneath them...
...HONESTY. Right away, it has to be admitted that architecture, like life, tolerates contradictory kinds of honesty. Today architects like to show how buildings stand by calling attention to the structural system. In San Francisco's Alcoa building, the beautifully proportioned glass box hangs within a strong steel cage of vertical and diagonal steel beams. It thus avoids that hallmark of cheap building, a forest of interior columns. In the Gulf Life tower in Jacksonville, the architects went a step further; they expressed engineering stress lines by thickening concrete beams where they meet columns, narrowing them where there is less...
...technocracy pulls us together." He designed the highly engineered John Hancock building in Chicago, likes to use computers to figure out the precise calculations, such as how much aluminum can be pared from window frames (the answer saved Shell $200,000 in Houston). The driving force in the San Francisco office is Charles Bassett, 46, a touseled six-footer who came to S.O.M. from the office of the late Eero Saarinen. He ranges widely in styles, designed the Alcoa building, the Mauna Kea Hotel in Hawaii, and the bare-boned Oakland-Alameda County stadium, which he boasts is a beauty...
...performance is one good reason why St. Louis, with a 12½-game lead, has made a mockery of the National League pennant race. Other hurlers around the majors have won more games, of course: Detroit's Denny McLain already has 19 victories to his credit, San Francisco's Juan Marichal 18, and Cleveland's Luis Tiant 16. Gibson's record is 14-5, but the last time he lost was May 28. Since June 2, when he beat the New York Mets 6-3, he has pitched 90 innings and allowed just two runs...