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...Schlosshotel Kronberg, ten miles outside Frankfurt, was built in the late 19th century by Empress Victoria of Germany. "Nothing should avert the eye," she instructed the architect, and nothing does. Surrounded by an extensive park through which an 18-hole golf course now meanders, the castle holds the empress' extensive library and art collection. Guests can scrawl postcards at Emperor Frederick Ill's personal desk. The hotel beds 60 at prices ranging from $16 a day to $45 (for a suite...
...Spanish-born Felix Candela of Mexico is perhaps the most unassuming architect alive. About the closest he has ever come to immodesty is to say of his shell-like concrete structures and umbrella roofs that "this is the most functional architecture there is." His adopted country enthusiastically agrees. There are more than 325 buildings in the republic that are at least structurally designed either by Candela or by authorized agents of his firm. Probably 100 more have sprung up in the rest of Latin America, as well as in the U.S. and Britain. But of all of these, none...
After a year of military rule, Peru finally has constitutionally elected a President. He is Fernando Belaúnde Terry, 50, a onetime architect and aristocrat turned crowd-rousing politician. Of the three candidates, he was considered the least likely to succeed. Yet on election day, he won votes from the Christian Democrats on one hand, the far leftists on the other, and from Peruvians in the middle who regarded him as a sensible compromise between Haya de la Torre, a weary ex-revolutionary, and Manuel Odria, a tired ex-dictator. With the count nearly complete, Bela...
...year founded the Oakland Corp. as a private development company, and enlisted the support of a group of nonprofit city institutions. Fred Smith, who was the prime mover of the massive Prudential Research Center in Boston, was brought in as president and operating head (Litchfield is board chairman), and Architect Max Abramovitz, who designed the Philharmonic Hall in New York's Lincoln Center, was hired...
...Francisco, the Home Mutual Savings Building, designed by Daniel Burnham and John W. Root in the tradition of the illustrious 19th century Chicago school of architecture, is now having its balanced grandeur shrouded by a curtain wall of glittery white porcelain enamel. "Worse than a desecration," growls Architect Nathaniel Owings of Skidmore, Owings & Merrill. "It's a stupid misunderstanding of what the future...