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...whole blocks of Washington buildings opposite the U. S. Capitol. Four apartment houses, 40 garages, and the old brick building where Congress met after the Capitol was burned by the British during the War of 1812, are to be destroyed. On the two blocks is to rise Architect Cass Gilbert's $9,740,000 edifice for the U. S. Supreme Court...
Last week Architect Gilbert showed the nation what he thought the Court's new home should look like: a classic temple of white stone 385 ft. deep, on each side of which abut lower rectangular wings. The temple-front is roofed to a slight peak above massive Corinthian columns, this portal and the wings to present a façade 304 ft. wide...
...casting deep horizontal bands of shadow on the walls. Such houses looked simple to build, serene and solid, but their blocky squareness, their squatness, aroused comment more hostile than surprised. People with established fortunes and homes suspected that only the ''newly rich" would employ so queer an architect. In the East, with its colonial traditions and propinquity to European standards, the new geometric style of Frank Lloyd Wright was deemed "mad" if not vulgar, and quite beneath notice. Architect Wright did not worry. He found plenty of Midwesterners either new-rich or bold enough to take an interest...
Most modern and rubiginous is the lobby of the Chrysler Building. Chaste in black and white marble is the first floor of the Bank of Manhattan Building. The Chrysler architect is William Van Alen, the builder Fred T. Ley. Architects of the Bank of Manhattan were H. Craig Severance and Yasuo Matsui, the builder Thompson-Starrett...
...Among them, the season's first batch of honorary degrees. Recipients: Frederick Hanley Scares, assistant director of the Carnegie Institution of Washington's Mt. Wilson Observatory, California alumnus (1895); a classmate, famed Architect Harvey Wiley Corbett (Manhattan's Bush Terminal Office Building, George Washington Masonic Memorial at Alexandria, Va.); Professor Florian Cajori, California mathematician...