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Word: trapezoidal (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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Elsewhere in The Netherlands, Architect Breuer was finding tougher going. His design for a modern U.S. embassy on the linden-tree-shaded Lange Voorhout in The Hague had the conservative Hagenaars up in arms. The building's slab fagade, with its overall pattern and trapezoid-shaped windows topped with matching panels of polished grey granite, looked to one of them like "a sponge cake," and, worst of all, had a suspicious resemblance to Rotterdam's new Bijenkorf...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Successful Beehive | 6/3/1957 | See Source »

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