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...relevant section said: "To achieve maximum benefits from grade separation [underpasses], it will be necessary to match capacities along the length of Memorial Drive." Bernays said this meant that the Drive, presently 40 ft. wide, would have to be widened to 52 ft., the width of roadways for the underpasses...
...point out that the architectural rendering provided by the Coop is grossly distorted, making reasonable judgments impossible. To wit, Palmer Street is made to appear broader and lighter than would actually be the case. In the Coop rendering, Palmer Street, curb to curb, is shown as 5.5 times the width of the West sidewalk, preserving present building and curb lines. Actually, by measure, Palmer Street is 3.3 times the sidewalk width (205/54 inches. The effect of this distortion is to make the street appear to be about 25 feet, curb to curb, instead of its actual 17 feet...
Napoleon's Width. What rubs salt in the wound is that the French claim to have invented the automobile, either in 1873, when one Amedée Bollée built a steam car that was driven from Paris to Bordeaux, or in 1891, when Rene Panhard and Emile Levassor placed a German Daimler motor on a chassis and thus created the first true auto. France remained the center of the automotive world until World War I, when the U.S. forged ahead. But the ardor for cars has never dimmed, and with today's prosperity, French automakers sell...
...built a many-chambered nautilus. Johansen, who trained under Walter Gropius, has veered away from the Master's Bauhaus cubism into a vocabulary of curves and coils, pleasing both to look at and to live in. The Taylor house is cast in forms of rough-sawed random-width oak slabs, which give concrete a rich, grainy texture. Says Johansen: "I think of a house as a series of shells which contain human organisms; the outside of the shell is an epidermis, and it can be as rough as the seaworn shells one finds on the beach. The inner surface...
Since it would be unsafe for the Drive to widen beneath the underpasses and then narrow to its present width elsewhere, observers consider it likely that the road will eventually be widened along its entire length. Although this might not eliminate the grassy strip by the river, it would probably make it difficult for students to reach what remained...