Word: spiring
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...down to their front doors the "desirable illusion" of living in a two-story building. ¶ From Berlin's Ludwig Lemmer came the plans for a new Kaiser Friedrich Memorial Church, going up on the ruined foundations of the old Kaiser Wilhelm Church. Main feature: a tall, concrete spire (see cut), which Berliners are calling "The Spiked Helmet of God." ¶ On the nearby site of the former Reichstag, Berliners will also have a new Congress Hall, mainly financed by U.S. government funds. Designed by Cambridge (Mass.) Architect Hugh Stubbins, it will have seven conference halls, theater...
...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...