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...from front desk to executive office. He took time out as president to run the successful Seattle World's Fair, but now is busier than ever inspecting new sites and blueprints for his growing network. Last week he was in Detroit to check out with Architect Minoru Yamasaki the designs for the 800-room Century Plaza that Western will open in Los Angeles next year. Carlson is also moving Western into Mexico and Canada, has just ordered a study for developing 1,000 acres of estate lands on Hawaii, later plans other hotels in Japan...
...four-story building, constructed with white pre-cast concrete, was designed by the internationally-known architect Minoru Yamasaki of Detroit. The building features a high degree of flexibility to make possible a large variety of elaborate experiments. The walls and ceilings are lined with "channels" of space, approximately two feet by three feet, through which piping of all sorts can be easily...
...office equipment, steel, glass and paint. To the delight of construction contractors, some firms are also brushing up their corporate images and increasing the comforts of their employees by investing in attractive new headquarters, such as Michigan Consolidated Gas Co.'s $20 million structure, designed by Architect Minoru Yamasaki...
...Trade Center will have a gross floor area nearly triple that of the Pentagon; the five-storied base for the towers and a roomy plaza cover a 16-acre site that will require the abandonment of several existing streets. Yamasaki has switched from concrete, his favorite medium, to steel because of the sheer height of the towers, and instead of having the weight of the structure carried by the frame and the elevator core, the great steel columns of the exterior walls will support it. The stainless-steel outer ribs are only 22 inches apart, with glass between, giving...
Babylon, Beaux-Arts. Yamasaki will be faced with a problem that many notable architects come up against nowadays: working "in association with" another firm of building planners on the job. As in the case of the Gropius-Belluschi Pan Am Building in Manhattan, the "associates" will be the firm of Emery Roth & Sons, whose glassy budget ziggurats have transformed much of the city into a white-collar Babylon. Whether Yama can maintain his usual no-detail-is-too-small control over the project's construction is a question that bothers many of his fellow architects. Says...