Word: semicircular
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...dead-end street. "Grownup children play with curves and tensions they do not control," he snorts. "It smells of Hollywood. The human being becomes forgotten." His office now has projects for a new cultural center for Wolfsburg, Germany (home of the Volkswagen works), a museum in Denmark, a semicircular apartment house in Bremen and a new opera house for Essen. Says U.S. Architect Eero Saarinen, himself the son of a famed Finnish architect: "In the postwar decade, Aalto seemed headed away from the mainstream of architecture-until now. The development of the last few years has proved him right. Architecture...
...huge, semicircular conference room in the U.S. Capitol, seven Senators and seven Representatives last week sat down to what may be the most important job of their legislative lives: hammering out a labor reform bill. Between the hard-fisted Landrum-Griffin bill passed by the House (TIME, Aug. 24) and the milder Kennedy-Ervin bill approved by the Senate, there was ample room for compromise, though the rigid-and almost equally divided-positions of the conferees typified a general bitterness rarely before equaled on Capitol Hill...
...Scrolls, a Fountain. Coming to the U.S. from his native Vienna in 1926, Kiesler took up teaching at Columbia in the 1930s, amazed his students with suggestions that they develop spiral buildings, semicircular projection screens, "floating cities" wrapped in cocoonlike weather protectors, and "horizontal skyscrapers" suspended like bridges. In the 1940s he built great open sculptures and clusters of pictures "to relax inside" and designed striking stage sets for No exit and The Magic Flute...
Around the semicircular bar at Nassau's Pilot House Club, deepwater sailors were busy discussing the remarkable performance of one of the world's greatest sailors -Emil Mosbacher, last summer's skipper of America's Cup Candidate Vim. "Bus" Mosbacher had taken the run-of-the-drawing-board yawl, Callooh, designed by Phil Rhodes, and driven her to apparent victory in the annual 184-mile Miami-to-Nassau race. Then they discovered that Mosbacher had not won after all. Tardily, the race committee determined that the winner on corrected time was a 40-ft., fiber-glass...
...plain grey façades, balconies, front-to-sidewalk walls and classical details? Every tradition lover in town was up in arms. To make matters worse, the new structure was directly across from one of the gems of 18th century architecture-the revered Ecole Militaire, facing on the semicircular Place de Fontenoy on Paris' Left Bank. But except for conforming to the curve of the place, UNESCO made no concessions. It is clearly and emphatically modern...