Word: cullinane
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...temporary form at the 1929 Barcelona International Exposition with his German Pavilion, a building that proved to be one of the most influential structures of modern times. But for a long time Mies found no time or opportunity to build a permanent museum. His opportunity came when Nina Cullinan, daughter of Texas Oilman Joseph Stephen Cullinan, offered the Houston Museum of Fine Arts $625,000 to build a new wing...
Last week Texans walking through the new Cullinan Hall found it good. The building is supported by four 82-ft.-long girders above the roof, leaving 10,000 sq. ft. of column-free space beneath a 30-ft. ceiling. Opening to the north is a curving façade of grey-tinted glass which has become the main museum entrance. In such stark simplicity, the touches of elegance-Roman travertine on the entrance stairs and terrace, green Venetian terrazzo floors-take on a rich but restrained resonance...
...last week Director Malone put on a display of 60 ultramodern paintings (e.g., France's Hans Hartung and Manhattan's Mark Rothki), hung each picture from the ceiling on picture wire to provide an installation as nearly invisible as the museum's own structure. Donor Cullinan said happily: "The new wing is like a great stage which faces the city. Another might have built a nice, safe building. I wanted something that would be contemporary for generations to come." Touring the building in a wheelchair to spare an ailing hip, Mies agrees: "Buildings last so much longer...
With a proud and somewhat hurt air, a group of Texas oillionaires gathered last week at a ground-breaking ceremony for the Houston Museum of Fine Arts' $860,000 building-expansion program. There to wield a special silver shovel were Donors Nina Cullinan (daughter of Texas Co. Founder Joseph S. Cullinan), who is putting up more than $430,000 for a new, ultramodern, Mies van der Rohe-designed museum wing, and Mrs. Olga Wiess (widow of Humble Oil Co. Co-Founder Harry Wiess), who with other Texans, including the Jesse Jones family, contributed enough for remodeling and air-conditioning...
...more, but others scoffed that it was only an industrial diamond worth a bare $4,000. Afraid to test his luck, Agustín kept his big stone for two agonizing months. Word of the find spread. Newspapers debated names for a gem destined to rank with the Cullinan and the Hope; they settled on the Evangelist...