Word: surround
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...monument to their own stubbornness. The symmetry of Manhattan's towering RCA Building is notched by a drab four-story building housing Hurley's Bar, whose owner turned down offers of $1,000,000. San Francisco's 27-story Shell Building is conspicuously shaped to surround a narrow, eleven-story building whose owner refused to sell...
Through the green fields that surround the little town of Hennepin, Ill. (pop. 350), surveyors tramped last week under the searing Midwestern sun. Since its founding in 1831 in the great bend of the Illinois River 112 miles west of Chicago, Hennepin has been largely bypassed and ignored by the world beyond. Its main industry is duck hunting, its greatest claim to fame the burial site of the Potawatomi chief, Senachwine. Hennepin may soon long for the simple days. The surveyors are setting down the boundaries of a huge new $600 million steel mill that Pittsburgh's Jones & Laughlin...
Awaiting them are roof gardens of white pebbles; hard coal and geraniums surround a penthouse cafeteria atop the pile. "They are a little like the hanging gardens of Babylon," says Rudolph. "Basically it is a village on top of a huge box." Function is served by the multilevel construction, since pharmaceuticals are manufactured by gravity-flow pipes and chutes that blend drugs, liquids or tablets. "It may seem too pretentious," says Rudolph, "but the building does not attempt to bury the flaws...
Mexico's elemental magic was skillfully woven into the museum by its architect, Pedro Ramírez Váquez, 46, a team of 40 specialists, and hundreds of artists in wood and stone. Galleries surround an airy grand patio, roofed by an aluminum umbrella that keeps visitors dry in the season when Tlaloc works overtime. Like an upside-down fountain, a sun-stippled waterfall splashes freely onto the patio floor through the umbrella's center, veiling its only support, a bronze-covered column faced with modern interpretations of the rigid stylizations of pre-Hispanic imagery. Fire spurts...
BRUCKNER: FOURTH SYMPHONY (Angel). Otto Klemperer's approach to Bruckner's "Romantic" symphony is majestic but brisk, brassy and free of the tedious, otherworldly vapors that sometimes surround the innocent mystic's lengthy work. This is one of six recordings with London's Philharmonia Orchestra (including symphonies by Stravinsky, Dvorak and Mozart) that celebrate Klemperer's 80th birthday...