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...Minoru Yamasaki (TIME cover, Jan. 18, 1963), "should be an event, a fun thing." His new $32 million, 800-room Century Plaza Hotel, which opened last week in Los Angeles, is all of that and more. To begin with, there is the hotel's distinctive shape. To eliminate endless vistas down straight corridors, Yamasaki designed the hotel as a curved slab, 400 ft. long. In most new hotels, ballrooms, restaurants and shops are housed aboveground in a massive and ungainly block; Yamasaki placed them beneath notice, underground, along with a 1,000-car garage, so that the gracefully balconied...
...northern lights and the ionosphere by launching its own rockets at Fort Churchill on Hudson Bay. The university has grown beyond its 2,600-acre campus, with Gothic greystone buildings, to acquire a 1,300-acre branch in Regina. The new school has a campus designed by Architect Minoru Yamasaki; among its teachers is a visiting professor from Moscow University...
...living American composers. There were plenty of living celebrities at the reception that followed: Marian Anderson, Samuel Barber, Aaron Copland, Paul Horgan, Peter Kurd, Jasper Johns, Erich Leinsdorf, Robert Lowell, Gian Carlo Menotti, Anna Moffo, Mark Rothko, W. D. Snodgrass, Edward Steichen, Richard Wilbur, Herman Wouk and Minoru Yamasaki...
...solution, when it came, so delighted Yamasaki that he confesses to having jumped up and down with glee: a giant, six-story portico, which would marry the building, mall and park. To slenderize his trumpet-topped columns as much as possible, he manufactured them in one piece on the site and derricked them into place. The building repeats their rhythm around the facade in the manner of a Greek temple...
...Yamasaki's 25-ton columns soar 80 ft. The Parthenon's portico rises only 34 ft., and the columns of Paris' Madeleine church climb 65 ft. But Yamasaki winces at the comparison. He prefers to call his colonnade, in congenial fashion, a porch. "When you build something," Yamasaki insists, "you ought to be a good neighbor...