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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...
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...
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...