Word: spacing
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...SPACE ODYSSEY. The journey of Apollo II has lent a new immediacy to Stanley Kubrick's visionary film of an expedition to Jupiter that assumes staggering metaphysical consequences. Kubrick is among the greatest of American film makers, and 2001 may well stand as his best film...
...with low structures that climb up Telegraph Hill, hugging its contours and accentuating San Francisco's natural rhythm of hills and valleys. It is an area of narrow streets and small lots, and zoning authorities thought they had forestalled any skyscraper-high structure by stipulating that total floor space in new buildings could not exceed 14 times the area of the site. Transamerica outsmarted them by assembling seven parcels into a 47,000 sq.ft. lot, and Architect William Pereira devised a tapering pyramidal shape that will soar 840 ft. into the sky without violating the required standards for setbacks...
...favorite of these was the Illinois Institute of Technology's Crown Hall, where the giant, 220-ft.-wide roof, suspended on four trusses, hovers almost weightlessly over the huge inner space...
Mies' death closed one of architecture's more glorious chapters. Along with Frank Lloyd Wright, the arch individualist who pioneered an organic approach to space, Le Corbusier, the daring gambler with expressive form, and Walter Gropius, the dogged exponent of functionalism-all dead now-he had shaped the buildings of the 20th century. Whoever successive generations may follow, or aspire to emulate, they must take Mies into account. He set down principles and raised standards for construction from which there can be no retreat...
...advertising firm of Avery, Hand & Co., said that two of his company's lines were apparently disconnected by mistake and were still not repaired after a month despite daily calls to telephone company offices. To call attention to its plight, his company bought $5,900 worth of space in the New York Times, offering a prize to whoever could guess "the exact date and time when New York Telephone reconnects our lines." Within hours the lines were restored, with apologies from a phone company vice president...