Word: tabler
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...foundations for Intercontinental Hotels in Lahore and Rawalpindi, Pakistan. In St. Paul, the framework for a 24-story Hilton climbed skyward, while in New Haven, Conn., and Montreal, workmen were busy building locally financed hotels. These far-flung structures are the creations of one architect: balding, cherubic William Benjamin Tabler, 50, who has become the world's busiest designer of big hotels, including the new Hiltons in Manhattan, San Fran cisco and Washington...
Jetting through a hotel construction boom that has spread to most parts of the earth, Tabler has designed 35 hotels that cost $314 million, has 49 more projects abuilding or on the drawing boards in his penthouse office in Manhattan's Statler Hilton. Having signed up last month to design another $50 million worth, he flew off last week on an eleven-day inspection of work in progress in Los Angeles, London, Nairobi and Johannesburg...
Smaller Bathrooms. The world's major innkeepers knock on Tabler's door because he has developed a McNamaralike precision for slashing frills and space out of his buildings to make them cheaper to construct and operate. At Denver's Brown Palace annex, he eliminated 100 light fixtures (at $50 each) by doing away with the "up" and "down" elevator signal lights in the hallways; instead, he placed the lights just inside the elevator cars, where they show as the doors open. By installing towel hooks next to the wash basins, he encouraged customers to make do with...
...York Hilton, he fitted out a service elevator as a speedy, efficient pantry for Continental breakfasts: one man, instead of the usual three, takes an order on the telephone, warms rolls and pours coffee while the elevator moves, then delivers it to the proper floor. Another Tabler innovation: a strip of black paint in place of black tile on the bottom of closets (saving...
...Tabler, who specializes in hotel-motel architecture and designed the New York Hilton, said that final plans would be ready within a month. Tabler also reported that he has visited Cambridge frequently to visualize the site area, and that two other designers were here last week in order that he could "get completely different points of view from different individuals...