Word: space
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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While the new structure includes chemical and pathological laboratories for the work of those departments of the Cancer Commission, the greater part of its space is occupied by laboratories for the study of a special and important field of science--that of bio-physics, a department in which the physicist and the biologist meet and work in co-operation to apply to complicated biological problems the accurate measurements, the immutable laws, and the mathematical methods of the physicist...
...next line was located as near the first one as practicable. And so history has repeated itself from those old days until now through all the developments of the transit art, from the horse-car to the ten-car subway express train. Mean-while there was plenty of vacant space available for development and plenty of population to comfortably fill it. But instead of spreading out, the population started to spread up. Instead of living and working in one plane we are now doing so in forty planes, and the limit...
...lights, sanitary arrangements and ventilation, but did not equip it with elevators before opening it up for public use but instead, only provided stairways from the first to the 30th floors, because a generation ago such stairways were all that were necessary in the then existing buildings. How much space do you think would be rented in that building? What would you think of that architect? I will not give your answer out loud. But do you realize that those who have been responsible for the planning and building of our modern cities might with equal justification be characterized...
...time in Europe, studying the architecture of various localities, and is an especial devotee of the art of the north Latin countries. The structure will be of Flemish Renaissance architecture and will embrace six members with a covered arcade. The main reading room of the library will have space for 2000 volumes and will accommodate approximately 200 readers...
...plan: the difficulty of the practical management, and the possibility of rain. It may be argued that Sanders has more dignity by virtue of its traditions; but certainly it also has more discomfort than the Stadium, nor is the latter without its dignity. And the overwhelming lack of space in the theatre puts it at a disadvantage in any comparison...