Word: spaces
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...process, however, Wright created new problems. While his structure, shaped like a snail shell with portholes, may attract, it also repels as no mere skyscraper can. In his grand manner he committed glaring faults (for instance, the office space was designed for gnomes...
...walls, indeed, arrest the eye, encircling an irregularly shaped shaft of space and supporting an inclined plane whose waist high, fragile balcony has been said to invite suicides. Annexed to the dome which houses the art is a small auditorium, whose peaceful proportions contrast dramatically with those turbulent ones of the dome itself...
...paintings hang on the curved wall, two or four to a partition. Towards the top, where the curvature makes flush hanging impossible, Museum Curator James Sweeney has devised metal rods which project the paintings into the air, causing them seemingly to float in space. Arranging the pictures was necessarily an imposing task; not only must they co-ordinate with their neighbors, but also with those on opposite walls...
...year here, Hynek will work to assure continuation of the Satellite Tracking Program and try to complete the initial phases of both the "Balloon" and "Cat-Eye" projects for his successor. The Balloon project deals with electro-optical technique for stellar photography, the Cat-Eye with manned and unmanned space flights...
This narrow parking space is little better than its predecessor. The noise of the motorcycles will disturb almost as many students as before. Leverett and Lowell House rather than Kirkland, Winthrop and Eliot will suffer now. At least the lot could have been placed a little further away from Lowell up Plympton Street. A parking lot several walking minutes from the latter houses makes it almost absurd for a student there to own a motorcycle, presumably purchased for use on short trips...