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Somewhat oversimplified in Architect Wright's description-a "steel basket shot with concrete"-the outer covering of the building will be winding bands of seamless concrete and glass, rising 100 ft. At the top, the structure will project 24 ft. beyond the ground level building-line. The interior of this huge upended cone will consist of a continuous, gradually rising, gradually widening, ramp picture-gallery ¾ of a mile long. A great glass dome will top the last wide spiral sweep...
...builders are content to recall that Chartres Cathedral took two centuries to finish. But most of St. John's delay-other than financial-involves a gigantic architectural indecision and eventual about-face. In 1911, after the choir and sanctuary had been built in heavy Romanesque, a new architect (the late Ralph Adams Cram) decided to go Gothic. Today St. John's is Gothic fore & aft, with a great chunk of Romanesque amidships. The odd combination of Gothic's aspiring points and lacy frets with Romanesque's rounded arches is still bedeviling builders...
Nothing in Lieut. General Wedemeyer's orders gives him franchise to interfere in China's internal and external affairs. But the organizer of China's dawning victory could not fail to be in some degree the architect of China's future. And China's internal and external problems could not fail to influence the organization of victory...
...would the fair sex be excluded from this paradise of light and beauty. "My plant," asserts the architect, "would definitely have women. In this war they have proved themselves a great boost to morale of the workers. They add a touch of beauty to any plant...
...Architect of this victory was General Wang Yao-wu, a peppery, 40-year-old Shantung man. Stocky, muscular and tanned, like most Shantung peasants, he has a ferocious temper, a vivid and profane vocabulary. He is of the very core of the old Chinese Army, a Whampoa Academy cadet who fought his way up from platoon to army group commander. But in Hunan he used methods long neglected in China...