Word: skyscraperism
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The motel's architect was not dismayed by this turn of events. He continued to refine his skyscraper design, which he said would "blend in very well with the architecture of Harvard Square."
The company is currently being sued by the City of Boston and three utility companies for $4 million in damages to sewage and water mains and communications lines allegedly caused by the construction of the skyscraper.
Barring any further mishaps, the skyscraper should be ready for occupancy by September 1974.
Dull shades of stucco prevail. Balconies are frequent, and the settings for touches of rare color: carefully tended flower boxes. It is a modernism not of the skyscraper but of the piled and scattered, as if--like the baroque boulevards, the bombed-out imperial facades in the East, the shape...
If the starlet did go inside to see the film, she would have found that Anderson the director reveals as much of his dour, sardonic Scots heritage as Anderson the man does. O Lucky Man!, now on view across the U.S. (TIME, June 18), presents the audience with visions of...