Word: yamasaki
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Manhattan Bank Building, packed with modern art and surrounded by a plaza roughly the size of Venice's Piazza San Marco. The dancing glass wall of No. 2 Broadway brings a note of new brightness to the area's soot-stained limestone. And last week Architect Minoru Yamasaki was commissioned to design the $270 million World Trade Center, which will occupy a 15-acre site bounded by West, Barclay, Church and Liberty streets, and is planned to bring together all the city's export-import activities and information...
...Minoru Yamasaki, prizewinning Detroit architect D.F.A...
From a distance they are magnificent, but on closer inspection, some observers find them disturbing. Says Michigan's Architect Minuro Yamasaki of the High Court Building: "In India, I thought, everything is elegant and refined; but here was something crude. I thought this building should have elegance and be proud, too. But it is a fist instead of a hand." Architect Paul Rudolph of the Yale School of Art and Architecture disa grees. "As time goes on," says he, "everyone will understand the importance of Chandigarh; people will go there as they now go to the Piazza San Marco...
...city's two finest museums. Its buildings include Charles Addamsish mansions that once housed Detroit's wealthy. Its students fill the classrooms 14 hours a day, and some of them have to meet in a garage. Yet everywhere loom the cool creations of famed Detroit Architect Minoru Yamasaki (TIME, Nov. 17, 1958), who is turning ugly Wayne into a graceful "superblock" of imaginative buildings...
Freedom &Riches. This week the academy named 13 new fellows for next year, ranging from Latinist Richard Brilliant, 30, a Yale doctoral candidate, to Latvian-born Astra Zarina Haner, 30, an apprentice of Detroit's famed Architect Minoru Yamasaki. Like the 27 current fellows, all are likely to be profoundly invigorated by the academy's unique formula: freedom amid Rome's riches, from the ancient Forum to the soaring Olympic stadium...