Word: stones
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Those Who Love, Stone (8) 10. The Embezzler, Auchincloss...
What pleases Stone most is that the Delhi embassy's fame seems to have lingered longest in the Middle East and Pakistan, where it has since won him a dozen commissions. "They want something they can identify with, not just a crate," says Stone. "The problem is to be inspired by their style and do a completely modern building...
...What Stone produced might well make an old Mogul emperor rub his eyes in astonishment. Against the background of the blue Murree hills, Stone set the swimming-pool reactor beneath a mosquelike dome embellished with gold mosaic designs, juxtaposed it with a minaret-like exhaust tower. Enclosing the reactor complex is a great quadrangle housing laboratories and offices. In its final phase, the great quadrangle surrounding the reactor will measure 800 ft. by 600 ft., become the nucleus for what Stone likes to think of as "the M.I.T. of Pakistan...
Grace & Delight. So pleased was the Pakistani government with the new reactor that last week it gave Stone the staggering commission to design its new capital at Islamabad. Working with a budget approaching $100 million, Stone will design five government structures, including the presidential residence, in the new capital's 50-block central core...
...While Stone has only begun to put pencil to paper, he intends that the project will combine the grace and delights of Mogul architecture with all the benefits of modern technology. Says Stone: "It is the dream of every architect to do a project of this scope. It hasn't happened more than half a dozen times in history...