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...million project, designed by Architect Minoru Yamasaki (who also designed New York's World Trade Center), attracted national attention as a model of public housing when it was built 16 years ago Its 33 slablike buildings contained modern plumbing, and there were plans for garden apartments and generous landscaping. Yamasaki's "skip stop" elevators opened on only every third floor, which he hoped would become galleries for strolling and games...
...with 315,000 lawyers, 315,000 doctors, 275,000 engineers, and they still have too little effect on U.S. building. But given the opportunity, the best U.S. architects often lead the world. Among the examples is the new World Trade Center, now going up in Manhattan: designed by Minoru Yamasaki of Birmingham, Mich., its 110-story aluminum-sheathed twin towers will top the Empire State Building, since 1932 the world's tallest. The steady, disciplined hand of German-born Ludwig Mies van der Rohe, 82, soon will show in Washington's pristine, block-long central library. For Oakland, Calif...
...Yamasaki's William James Hall is one of the best examples of the artistic, intuitive approach. The exterior is an artistic study in perspective, but it is competely out of proportion with the rest of the Harvard campus. Thus it is isolated from its environment...
Harvard's built some pretty great stuff, notably the Carpenter Center and Gropius's Bauhaus building, Harkness Commons. But it doesn't try so hard every time and sometimes it just flops. The McKay Labs (upper right) are functional but featureless. And Yamasaki's (he later built the Woodrow Wilson School building at Princeton) William James Hall (left) is visually unbalanced and doesn't fit into its surroundings. The Loeb (above) just sits there but then really makes it at night. Hilles Library, too, is neat in the dark but scares the people who live across Garden St. Sert...
...building in midtown. Last week, after six months of hassling over tax terms, Mayor John Lindsay and the Port of New York Authority came to terms, gave the green light to the construction of the $525 million World Trade Center in Lower Manhattan. Main feature of the Minoru Yamasaki-designed 16-acre complex: twin stainless-steel towers, each 110 stories tall, or 100 ft. taller than the Empire State Building, which since 1931 has retained the proud title "Tallest Building in the World...