Word: zehrfuss
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...name Les Trois who would actually design the building. The site was changed twice to placate the jittery guardians of Paris' celebrated skyline. With that act over, the U.S.'s Marcel Breuer, Italy's famed master of concrete, Pier Luigi Nervi, and France's Bernard Zehrfuss could get down to work...
...Bernard Zehrfuss, 48, who built his reputation with low-cost housing units in North Africa, took over on site planning, bulldozed the unconventional structures through Paris' complex building codes, coordinated multilingual teams of workmen...
After countless sketches, Designers Zehrfuss, Nervi and Breuer had hit on an unusual, Y-shaped Secretariat, gracefully modern yet low enough (seven stories) to fit into a new site near the Eiffel Tower without overshadowing the classical architecture of neighboring buildings. The new plan calls for a building resting lightly on stiltlike pilotis. Within the Y is space for UNESCO's 1,200 workers, each one with a window on Paris; there will be small conference rooms, a bank, workshops, two restaurants, doctors' offices and libraries. On the ground, the architects plan a mosaic-tiled pool, a delegates...
...sister, UNESCO, has been living from pillar to post, without a home of its own, for seven years. This week an international design panel produced plans for the permanent home UNESCO hopes to build in Paris. The main feature of the plan, as conceived by France's Bernard Zehrfuss, Italy's Pier Nervi and the U.S.'s Marcel Breuer: a smaller edition of big sister's Manhattan "sandwich on end" (TIME, Sept. 22), with a cluster of conference halls near...
...take some doing. The architects are also bracing for a possible fuss from architecturally conservative Parisians. To avoid conflict with existing styles nearer midcity, the building is to be set at the edge of the Bois de Boulogne; but Parisian reaction cannot be taken for granted. Said French Architect Zehrfuss: "They're noted bellyachers...