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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Evita's mausoleum. At the outset, the idea was to hold a world competition for the design of a colossal monument, then build it at one of Buenos Aires' main street intersections and preserve Evita's embalmed remains within, perpetually on view. By last week, the site had been changed from downtown Buenos Aires to the grounds of the presidential residence in the Palermo section. Evita's monument has been consolidated with an old project for commemorating the descamisados. Under the latest plan, the body will be sealed beneath the monument, which is to be topped...
...A.B.C. had earlier revoked the license of the Sage Co. and awarded it to Moriarty. Both principals have been trying to conduct business on a Memorial Drive site, near Magazine Beach...
...Trygve Lie, U.N. Secretary General, Harrison had special qualifications for top U.N. architect: he had helped build Rocke feller Center. Moreover, Har rison had been a member of the committee to bring the U.N. to Manhattan, and had assisted Rockefeller in his purchase and gift of the building site. Lie's first step was to name Harrison director of planning; then a consulting board of design was brought together from member nations. France sent brilliant, temperamental Le Corbusier (real name: Charles Edouard Jeanneret), famous for developing the city-in-a-park idea in the '20s. The others: Australia...
Given the restrictions of the relatively small Manhattan site, there was never any real debate about whether to build a skyscraper or not. The only question was what kind of skyscraper. Few of the non-U.S. architects had had much chance to work on buildings of really soaring height. They welcomed U.S. engineering experience on such problems as wind bracing, elevators, plumbing and fire prevention. Ideas and sketches (all unsigned, since it was to be a group project) piled in and got knocked down right & left. Harrison wanted a bow front for the Assembly; Corbusier saw the Secretariat...
...custodian was disgusted when we refused his offer of a torch with which to explore these workings. "Why," he said, "I've had people lost in 'em for two days or more." He told us that archeologists estimate that the earliest mining took place on the site of Grime's Graves about 10,000 B.C., and that they were last worked approximately 2,500 years...