Word: verticale
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
ELEVATION AND DESCENT For vertical control, a wooden hand lever was connected by a chain and pulley to an elevator in the front. By pulling the hand lever back, the pilot rotated the elevator, causing the plane to rise. Pushing the hand lever forward would cause the plane to descend...
The competition includes such telephone-equipment makers as Avaya, Citel Technologies, Mitel Networks, NEC, Nortel Networks and Siemens, which are all pitching products to move customers from traditional phone systems to a converged voice-and-data network. On the other side, network-equipment makers like Cisco and 3Com are suggesting...
One of the most formally inventive of the projects in “Lift” is the Sonoma County Museum addition. Maltzan’s proposed design hugs the museum’s existing Neo-Classical building, located in the center of a long city block. The ends of...
Harry Cooper ’81, curator of modern art at the Fogg Art Museum, says that the vertical motifs of the murals are “well-suited to the idea of a mural cycle because they really have so strong an architectural feeling of columns and posts and...
Rothko’s first mural series was intended for the Four Seasons restaurant in New York, which was designed by Philip Johnson ’30. The murals were never installed because of Rothko’s dislike for the restaurant’s elitism. In that series, vertical...