Word: spire
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...chapel, M.I.T. last week raised a brand-new, 45-ft.-tall aluminum spire, the work of Sculptor-Welder Theodore Roszak (TIME, Aug. 15). So that the steeple, which looks like a cross between an attenuated lobster claw and a fragile bottle opener, would not appear machine-made, Sculptor-Welder Roszak produced something brand-new in surface ornaments: he carefully puddled ingots of aluminum into "contemporary amor-phic baroque" blobs, then welded them to the steeple's base. Still to come: a bell for the steeple. What it will look like, M.I.T. refuses to say beyond the tantalizing hint...
...steeple jack, painting the spire of Memorial Church, is a rare sight in the Yard, not because the University allows its buildings to become run down, but because he is not a regular employee of the Department of Buildings and Grounds. With a year-round crew of 350 workers and a budget of over a million dollars to finance maintenance operations, the Department seldom has to contract outside help for any type of repair work on University property...
...pound 11 x 4 feet rectangular base. The most difficult of these to make, according to the artists who worked on the model, was the replice, of massive and Victories Memorial Hall, in the Lillipulian Version, its 305 feet length is reducted to about six inches, with the spire rising to a height of 4 1/2 inches. The spire, and buttresses of the hall, like all the more intricate designs in the model, were constructed of easily workable brass, while the bodies of the buildings were constructed of either savogran, a hard plastic similar to plaster of parts, or carved...
...Sabbath rings out grandly on the record, as if tolled by some huge bronze tongue within a spire, and the room fills with a sweet Welsh tumult...
...Also a Spire. Thanks to Father Bureth, St. Anne's is slowly nearing completion (cost so far: 96 million francs, or $274,-285). has already become an active center of worship for its 8,000 native and several hundred European parishioners. Next major step: construction of a 265-foot spire to crown the edifice...