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Died. Mrs. Mary Sibbet Copley Thaw, 90, of Pittsburgh, widow of the late steelman William Thaw, philanthropist, charity worker, mother of Harry K. Thaw, who, in 1906, killed Architect Stanford White; at "Oak Lawn," Pittsburgh. A daughter is Countess de Perigny (Margaret Carnegie Thaw...
Albert Kahn, Inc., Detroit architect, for deigning tractor factory (production 40,000 tractors a year) at Stalingrad (TIME...
Last week Dean Meeks heard that Burton Kenneth Johnson, 22, son of a Chicago dentist, had won the 1929 Prix de Rome in Architecture-third to be given to a Yale student in the past five years. True, Architect Johnson first went to Yale last fall, after four years architectural study at the University of Illinois, where he won honorable mention in last year's Prix Competition. But the honor of tuning him to prize-winning pitch was Yale...
There were 47 participants, seven finalists after preliminary competitions. The final project called for a giant art centre with galleries, auditorium, offices, library, studios. Architect Johnson rendered a rectangular two-story building with a Doric portico, a serene, traditional design with much unadorned wall space. He wins a prize valued at $8,000-including residence and studio for three years at the American Academy in Rome, transportation funds, a yearly stipend...
...Treasury Department and the office of the Supervising Architect approved the recommendation of the various commissions and contracts were let for limestone in February and March of this year: both of these contracts going to the Indiana Limestone Company...