Word: towered
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...From the Tower of Babel to the railroad roundhouse, men have always felt an almost romantic affection for circular buildings. Now, newly appreciated for form and function, round buildings are rising all over the U.S. and filling a variety of needs...
...walled Crown Zellerbach Building in San Francisco. Architect Peter Kitchell. design head of the bank for Skidmore, Owings & Merrill, turns a deaf ear to critics who grump that the bank, with its fluted roof and carousel airiness, is wrong for its setting at the foot of the zooming Zellerbach tower. Says he: "The essence of our bank is its simple shape. The Wells Fargo people love it; the first manager there treated it better than his wife." A unique marriage of roundness to function is the Pan American World Air ways terminal building at New York's Idlewild airport...
Marina City has its roots in a complex of lower, earthbound buildings-a theater, a restaurant, two dozen shops, a block-long office building, a bowling alley, and a marina for 700 private boats. The first 20 floors of each tower will be given over to spirals of garage space; rising above will be apartments and penthouses to house 896 families. With all its recreational and shopping features nestled conveniently at its base, it is a microcosm of a city and tenants can work, relax and shop without going off the reservation...
...other with a little wagon gathering up scraps saved for me by housewives so I could feed the hogs. I was out of high school for 16 years before I could go to college. So never let it be said that I look at this problem from any ivory tower...
...Americans, going to college in Paris has traditionally assayed high in romance (a garret out of La Boheme, professorial brilliance in a drafty Sorbonne classroom) and low on education (the French was hard to follow, the credits usually nontransferable). Last week, in the shadow of the Eiffel Tower, a school opened to provide both Parisian culture and American credits...