Word: yamasaki
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...sparkling exception to the rule is Minneapolis' Northwestern National Life Insurance Co. headquarters. Designed by Minoru Yamasaki (TIME cover, Jan. 18, 1963) and inaugurated last week, it not only makes peace with the city's complex grid, but frames a vital view into the city's 24-block Gateway Center redevelopment project...
...Yamasaki began with an awkward lot, bisected by Nicollet Avenue, scheduled to become a pedestrian mall ending in a park. Instead of obstructing the vista, Yamasaki resolved to enhance it. But how? He considered lifting the structure on stilts ("It would have been like going through a tunnel"), putting in an archway ("But that would have cut the building up"), moving it off to one side ("Then the building would not have been visible from Nicollet Avenue, and we had a beautiful location...
...Minoru Yamasaki, architect...
...Pentelic marble that forms the Parthenon. Edward Durell Stone's grillwork adorns New Delhi like a Hindu temple. In Baghdad, José Luis Sert put up a tentlike structure fit for a caliph and cooled by channels of river water. Saarinen warmed his Oslo embassy with teak screens; Yamasaki lightened his Kobe consulate with airy Japanese panels. The openings of U.S. embassies have come to be as eagerly anticipated as big Broadway first nights. This month the State Department opens...
...free Italy from Fascism; Paul Hoffman, 73, managing director of the U.N. Special Fund, presented with the American Freedom Association's 1964 World Peace Award; Film Cowboy and Multi-millionaire Investor Gene Autry, 56, Novelist Pearl Buck, 71, Litton Industries Chairman Charles ("Tex") Thornton, 50, and Architect Minoru Yamasaki, 41, each given a Horatio Alger Award for a noteworthy rise from "humble beginnings"; Federal Judge Thurgood Marshall, 55, who successfully argued against segregated schools before the U.S. Supreme Court ten years ago, granted the N.A.A.C.P.s Liberty Bell Award; Physiologist Wallace Fenn, 70, who demonstrated loss of muscular tension with...