Word: shaped
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Manhattan, a 45-story office building would be lost in the crowd. In San Francisco it would not, especially if it were topped by a 220-ft. spire and had the overall shape of a very sharp pyramid. The building in question is the proposed $30 million head office of Transamerica Corporation. When erected, it will be the tallest building in the West, and the issues it raises go straight to the heart of one of the most vexing problems of urban planning: where should the line be drawn between private convenience and the public good, especially when the public...
...authorities thought they had forestalled any skyscraper-high structure by stipulating that total floor space in new buildings could not exceed 14 times the area of the site. Transamerica outsmarted them by assembling seven parcels into a 47,000 sq.ft. lot, and Architect William Pereira devised a tapering pyramidal shape that will soar 840 ft. into the sky without violating the required standards for setbacks and floor space. Some critics do not object to the needle itself. But they fear it would set a precedent for high-rise construction in the valley that could, in time, draw a curtain...
...society. I have wanted to keep everything reasonable and clear -to have an architecture that anybody can do." To a large extent, he succeeded. Summarizing his achievement in a speech some time ago, Architect Philip Johnson said: "Le Corbusier invents, invents magnificently and, as at Ronchamps, makes a new shape of monument for the world to admire. Mies purifies and purifies till, as at Seagram, he makes the paradigm for America's tall building. I don't want to be interesting, I want to be good,' he liked to say. Ronchamps is more amazing; Wright...
...That shape, and the ingenious engineering that made the project feasible, is the handiwork of Mexico's largest builder, Bernardo Quintana. His box tunnel literally floats like a ship on subsoil that is 80% water. The trick was to remove precisely the right weight of soil and water without undermining buildings alongside the right of way. To do so, Quintana first built sidewalls for a trench, then removed the muck between them through a complex electroosmosis process of his own devising. The roof to form a tunnel came last. By the time the whole subway is completed in November...
...numerous delights of childhood reading. H. Rider Haggard's King Solomon's Mines, Captain Gilson's The Pirate Aeroplane, Anthony (The Prisoner of Zenda] Hope's Sophy of Kravonia and Marjorie Bowen's The Viper of Milan were among Greene's favorites. The shape of villainy, the sense of impending doom soon intrude. Captain Gilson's book was dominated by a bad "Yankee pirate with an aeroplane like a box kite and bombs the size of tennis balls." The Viper, he admits, gave him a permanent vision of "perfect evil walking the world...