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...founded in 1911 it took over and renovated a famed old Paris mansion, proceeding on the assumption that the government would help pay the costs. Last week the French Senate was surprised and pained at being reminded of this assumption by a bill to pay a 200,000-franc architect...
After the ceremony reporters learned from the Dean's office just what the restoration of St. Paul's had actually been It was limited almost entirely to the great pillars supporting the dome. These, under Architect Christopher Wren were faced with stone but filled with rubble. In two centuries the rubble had settled. To strengthen the pillars they were given gigantic hypodermic injections of liquid cement under pressure...
Engineers and constructors of the Radio City are Todd, Robertson & Todd. Architects include the firms of Reinhard & Hoffmeister, Raymond Hood, Godley & Fouilhoux and Corbett, Harrison & MacMurray. No one in this congress of talent will admit being either the originator or the "executive architect'' of the project. It was learned last week, however, that it was Senior Partner John Raynard Todd. of Todd, Robertson & Todd who suggested the radio-city idea to Mr. Rockefeller and who persuaded Vice President David Sarnoff of the R. C. A. and President Hiram S. Brown of Radio-Keith Orpheum to join the project...
...Manhattan for his soap torso done in a Greek manner. That the contest had left the realm of advertising and ventured into the realm of pure art seemed indicated by the jury of award which listed among others Sculptors Gutzon Borglum, Lorado Taft, Artist Charles Dana Gibson, Architect Harvey Wiley Corbett. Many of the competing sculptors were obviously serious in their work. The work of some was creditable. To most, however (including Colyumist Robert Littell of the New York World who suggested that the advantage of soap statuary was that it would float in case of flood whereas the marbles...
...American Academy in Rome and study there for three years. The winner has the satisfaction of knowing that he is theoretically the best U. S. architectural hope of the year, that at the end of his studies he may expect a job in a good architect's office or an instructorship in a reputable school, that he may well become a Great Architect. Among famed U. S. architects who have run washes and prepared esquisses as Prix-winners at the American Academy are John Russell Pope and William S. Covell. Announced last week as 1930 Prix winner was Walter...