Word: slabs
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...columns upon which the one-story slab rests are treelike supports, prestressed and poured in position-first the cross-shaped trunks, then the great branches. With this sturdy but graceful forest as a foundation, the thin slab seems so light that it appears barely to touch the top branches at all. Its cantilevered edges defy gravity, its corners almost soar into space...
Luxurious Elegance. Cars park in the concrete forest, eliminating the need for an outside parking lot that can disfigure any building. The slab itself has two rectangular holes cut into it, one for beauty, the other for function. The first creates a courtyard that gives the feeling of luxurious elegance. The second surrounds a two-story steel and concrete laboratory, which, aside from connecting doors, is structurally not a part of the slab. It rests on the ground-a building within a building, so subtly encased that it in no way intrudes on the overall design...
...many cases, an agonizing pain in the back, usually followed by a rash in the throat, tremor of the tongue and extremities, bleeding from tiny vessels around the eyes, and blood in the urine. After about a week, many of the victims turned as cold as a morgue slab before they died. Survivors presented a pitiable sight for weeks, with bleeding gums and persistent tremor, and often in a state of delirium or stupor...
...Tokyo, overlooking the Vatican in Rome and the Queen's private garden in London, on the Nile in Cairo and above the Bosporus in Istanbul, at the foot of the Elburz Mountains in Teheran. All of the hotels glisten and glitter, with an architecture that ranges from international slab to a crosshatched radio-cabinet style. They lean heavily on the anonymity of modernism, and display a spartan opulence designed as much to save the hotel money as to attract the clients. In countries where there is no previous standard of hotel excellence, Hiltons are oases; in such old cities...
...FOAM-RUBBER CUSHIONS. Neither soft nor comfortable, the new cushions spring disconcertingly back into their original inhospitable form, seem visually as uninviting as a concrete slab with the un-touched-by-human-bottom appearance of an ad in a homemakers' magazine...