Word: sites
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...leveling trees for more than 20 miles around and causing atmospheric shock waves that were detected round the world. At the time, scientists thought that a giant meteorite had crashed into the earth. Later, when they failed to find a major crater or clearly identifiable meteorite fragments at the site, they began to question their earlier theory...
...would be hubristic for any architect to expect a more spectacular site. Bennelong Point in Australia's Sydney Harbor is almost encircled by water. There is green parkland behind it, and to the west new skyscrapers and the arching, spidery profile of Harbor Bridge. Any structure built on the point would be thrust forward in a vast parenthesis of sea and air, displayed like sculpture on a plinth, and visible from almost every angle of the harbor. It would not be part of a street-not, therefore, "façade" architecture...
...committee chaired by President Bok unanimously voted to relocate the laboratory activities to Beth Israel. The committee began consideration of a new site after the BCH board of trustees ousted Harvard from the hospital...
Burke then resumed his explanation of the related facilities area, saying that its five main purposes are to contain visitors to the site, to enhance the Library both structurally and aesthetically, to bring life to the site on an 18-hour basis, to provide funding for Library programs, and to serve as a source of tax revenue for the City...
Alan L. Lefkowitz, chairman of the City's Rent Control Board, asked Burke why the 1966 figure of $14 per square foot used by the Library Corporation to determine the taxable land value of the site had not been updated to the present figure of $50 to $60 per square foot...