Word: steel
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Manhattan office. The new building is headquarters for the Emhart Manufacturing Co., which develops and produces machinery for making glass containers. Though in no sense decorated with extraneous embellishments, the building has a warm freedom about it that is almost impossible to achieve in even the best steel and glass boxes. The reason is that the structure is of prestressed concrete. "Steel is prefabricated in rectilinear units, and you have to work with that," says Bunshaft. "With concrete, you have to make your own forms and you can make any form you need." Duck Soup. When Emhart first commissioned...
...forest, eliminating the need for an outside parking lot that can disfigure any building. The slab itself has two rectangular holes cut into it, one for beauty, the other for function. The first creates a courtyard that gives the feeling of luxurious elegance. The second surrounds a two-story steel and concrete laboratory, which, aside from connecting doors, is structurally not a part of the slab. It rests on the ground-a building within a building, so subtly encased that it in no way intrudes on the overall design...
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Imperial Japanese Navy shipyards at Kure at the incredible bargain rate of $8,400 a year, plus his promise to use Japanese steel and low-wage Japanese workers...
...father's pet chain of bioscopes to 20th Century-Fox for $28 million. Next went the hotels. Schlesinger shocked traditionalists last year when he announced that the 57-year-old Carlton Hotel in downtown Johannesburg would be razed. To replace it: a 23-story, glass-and-steel office building to house Schlesinger's headquarters...