Word: ultramodern
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...unpromising locations. On a typical Sunday in downtown Pasadena, Calif., for example, only 80 mostly elderly worshipers attended services at the First Congregational Church, a cavernous old citadel built to hold a thousand people. The sparsely populated pews contrast dramatically with the overflow crowds that regularly jam the ultramodern Church of the Nazarene, situated on the fast-growing outskirts of town...
Design-wise, the simple, rectangular building will complement the ultramodern, cement Carpenter Center and the majestic red-brick Fogg without mimicking either. To enhance the structural unity are the proposed exterior materials, "warm gray" porcelain metal panels, honed, green Vermont slate tiles and flame-finished pink granite, "intended to mediate the monolithic scale of the concrete Carpenter Center on the one hand, and the brick of the Fogg on the other...
...Texas oil patch may still be in a horrible slump, but the mood in Houston last weekend was anything but downbeat. As fireworks exploded overhead, city officials opened the $175 million George R. Brown Convention Center, an ultramodern red, white and blue facility with enough floor space to cover 20 football fields. The hall, the eighth largest U.S. convention center, can accommodate up to 35,000 conventioneers. It is expected to help revitalize Houston's economy by pumping $300 million into local businesses every year and creating up to 10,000 jobs in the area. Already, 18 conventions, including...
Most Hong Kong enterprises avoid such bad vibrations by contracting with a feng shui master while their buildings are still in the planning stage. The ultramodern $650 million Hong Kong and Shanghai Bank building, which the Bank of China tower would rival for dominance of the city's skyline, prudently had its blueprints vetted by feng shui experts. For a fee of several thousand dollars, a feng shui master advised moving a bank officer's door away from a nearby escalator to preserve the delicate yin-yang. Management, mindful of the feng shui faith of the Hong Kong Chinese...
Aides to the evangelist denied that Roberts' sensational new appeal indicated financial problems in his spiritual empire. The ultramodern buildings of the 4,650-student university and adjacent medical complex are largely debt free, but obtaining enough income to keep the enterprises operating has proved difficult. The Tulsa Tribune reported last year that the voracious money demands of the hospital, clinic and research center were nearly twice Roberts' projections in the first year and continue to strip the university endowment and squeeze faculty income...