Word: bulfinch
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...American history, great architects, such as Bulfinch, Richardson, White, Maybeck and Wright, have created a style and generally stuck with it to the end. This is not the way of Nat Owings and Skidmore, Owings & Merrill. If one looks at the works of S.O.M., there is an astonishing range and volume of design. S.O.M. does not play variations on a theme and is perhaps the first major architectural firm to remain uncommitted to its past...
...will improve the esthetic quality of the west side, while at the same time preserving its essential characteristics." What he considers "essential characteristics" is unclear, for the proposed changes would bury the last remnants of the Capitol portion designed by William Thornton in the 1790's and Charles Bulfinch in the 1820's. It would also replace the steps and terrace designed by Frederick Law Olmstead...
...Boston Globe and the Record-American reported that Shepley, Bulfinch, Richardson, and Abbott, who also designed Quincy and Leverett Houses, were charged with negligent inspection of the building by the Federal government...
...Boston architectural firm of Shepley, Bulfinch, Richardson and Abbot -- the designers of Leverett and Quincy -- will now work on a final design for the House and seek Corporation approval for the plan in the fall. It will then make detailed working drawings, a process which will take about eight months. The University should be ready to ask for bids sometime next spring and start construction in the late spring or summer...
...Gard Wiggins, administrative vicepresident, said yesterday that a report the architects, the Boston firm of Shepley, Bulfinch, Richardson, and Abbot, is expected in several weeks. Shepley-Bulfinch is the same firm that designed Leverett Towers and the new section of Quincy House...