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From the mucky waters of Galveston Bay on the Gulf of Mexico, the Houston Ship Channel sluggishly winds 50 miles into southern Texas. From both banks, scrubby rangeland and salt marshes stretch to the horizon, relieved occasionally by a decrepit farmhouse or a forlorn oil rig. Then suddenly, around one...
Endless Boom. Seventh biggest of U.S. cities by 1960 census figures, Houston claims to be the fastest-growing major city in the nation. Last year Houston issued $338 million worth of building permits, trailing only New York and Los Angeles. Over the past decade, office space in the city has...
His Arab brethren also share pride in Nasser's achievements at home in the years since Suez. Cairo, a city as populous as Chicago, has become a bustling, busy metropolis. New skyscrapers line the banks of the Nile, throwing glittering light on the river at night and by day...
But there is one important area of news where, outside the smaller and respected professional journals, TIME finds the field left largely to itself. This is in architecture. We are passing through one of the greatest building periods of all times (how many great buildings are being built is another...
At 47, Lippold has produced as elegant a body of work as any artist that ever wielded a welding torch. The images that inspire him are wholly modern-"suspension bridges, TV antennas, steel skyscrapers. Our faith is in space, energy, communications, not in pyramids and cathedrals." For an age that...