Word: sites
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...couple of months later I found out that Lawrence Hall had burned down during the Spring of 1970 and that the big ditch was going to become an Undergraduate Science Center. Six years ago the site was entirely different. An often-clogged intersection, where Kirkland St., Cambridge St. and Broadway converged sat just outside the back gates of the Yard. By 1967 the Cambridge St. Underpass was built, Kirkland St. was cut off at its current length and a grassy field was formed where the intersection had been...
...building a giant underground garage. Many developers--inspired by the boom the library is expected to bring to the Square--have announced plans to build high-rise apartments, hotels and luxury stores. For example, Kanovas Corporation has received permits to build a 19-story structure next to the library site which city planning officials say will be a Holiday...
...time the Class of '76 graduates, at least two highrise buildings will tower over the Square. Over a million tourists a year will be visiting the Kennedy Library on the 11-acre MBTA site across from Eliot and Kirkland Houses. Streets still have been rerouted to handle new floods of traffic. Coffeehouses and bookstores will have fled before an onslaught of hotels, tourist shops, and hamburger stands. Parking facilities will be swamped, and construction of an MBTA Redline extension, out to the Fresh Pond shopping center, will be underway...
...obsolete military building with the tourist life of the city below? The answer was to turn it into an exhibition center. The fortress's ancient terraces, overlooking Florence to the north and the tranquil, cypress-dotted hills behind San Miniato to the south, were potentially a superb site for the open-air installation of large-scale sculpture-provided that a sculptor could be found whose work could confront, and survive, the austere monumentality of the building itself. To Florence's civic leaders, there was only one choice: Henry Moore...
...Sept. 30, and no matter how familiar Henry Moore's work may be to the international art audience, this is perhaps the most important show to be held in Italy this year. Certainly it is the most spectacular. "If a sculptor had ?20 million to build the ideal site for his work," says Moore, now 74, "it wouldn't be as good as this...