Word: tabler
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Russia and much of Europe, builders have been achieving construction economies for years with variations of Zachry's technique. "This is going to be the trend of the future," says Manhattan Architect William Tabler, the busiest U.S. designer of hotels. "What Zachry is doing is wonderful. I'd be doing it too, if we could." Like most contractors, Tabler blames organized labor for preventing adoption of such cost-cutting methods, sometimes by the threat of tying up a job in jurisdictional disputes, sometimes through covert control of local building codes. In New York City, for instance, Electrical Workers...
Representatives of the Beacon Construction Company, owners of the property, and of William E. Tabler '36, the architect, claim there is enough space in front to allow a building as large as they propose...
Raymond Giedraicis, of Tabler's office, said yesterday that the City agreed with the Beacon Company's interpretation. He claimed that Cambridge was cooperating with them on a test case in land court to make that interpretation official...
Work at Play. Few Tabler hotels win design prizes; but the architect is proud that no hotel of his has lost money, even though hotel wages have climbed 32% in the last ten years, while room rates are up only 21%. He has calculated the profit on every cubic foot of hotel space, figures that profits run to 70% on the price of rooms, 50% on liquor service, nothing at all on food-and that lobbies are just so much dead space. Tabler hotels have small lobbies, plenty of bedrooms. Says he: "Bedrooms are the cheapest thing in a hotel...
Illinois-born Bill Tabler learned his architecture at Harvard. He telescoped nine years of study into seven by taking extra classes, earned a bachelor's degree in engineering at Harvard College ('36), then added a master's in architecture at Harvard's Graduate School of Design ('39). Squeezing the most out of his time, he sleeps about one night a week on planes while traveling 300,000 miles a year. Even office parties do double duty: before the annual banquet for his 50-man staff and their wives-at a Tabler-designed hotel-there...