Word: welton
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...greatest inconvenience of modern air travel: the wearisome warrens of corridors that stretch seemingly for miles out into the windy tundra. Other outstanding round commercial buildings: Henri Jova's branch bank for the Trust Company of Georgia in Atlanta; Hollywood's Capitol Records Tower, designed by Welton Becket & Associates...
...Angeles. The $25 million Music Center designed by Welton Becket & Associates comprises a 3,310-seat auditorium for the Los Angeles Philharmonic; a circular amphitheater for experimental drama seating 869, equipped with an elevator stage; a theater with 1,700 seats for plays. More than half the cost is coming from revenue bonds backed by Los Angeles County, the rest by private donation. It is a pet project of Mrs. Norman Chandler, wife of the publisher of the Los Angeles Times. She has already raised $9,400,000. Also under way in Los Angeles: a $10 million County Museum...
...hotel, Los Angeles' disc-shaped Sports Arena. Abilene's stark Eisenhower museum and Hollywood's Capitol Records Building (which looks like a stack of records) would be hard pressed to say what all had in common. The answer: they were all designed by Los Angeles' Welton Becket, a Jack-of-all-styles architect who can run up a pancakelike auditorium or a soaring office building-or any of several dozen other styles and treatments-with equal ease...
Becket, 58, has won the title "The Businessman's Architect" by giving businessmen what they want and need in buildings, paying close attention to the balance books as well as the plumb lines. So successful is the formula that his Welton Becket & Associates is the world's largest singly owned architectural and engineering firm...