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...light that their tips look as if they were brushing the sky. No one can remain indifferent to the Air Force Academy Chapel: to some it has an awesome grace, to others a forbidding inhumanity (see color). This sort of controversy suits 42-year-old Architect Walter A. Netsch just fine. "I would rather people have some reaction to it," says he, "than have the cadets merely shrug and say, 'And that's the chapel...
...Doodle. Architect Netsch of the Chicago branch of Skidmore, Owings & Merrill began working on the chapel in 1954 when SOM got the job of designing the academy. But unlike other architects who have been dotting the country with churches of all sorts of imaginative shapes, Netsch had to do far more than satisfy one specific congregation, and one creed. He not only had to build a private place of worship for the cadets, he also had to create a national monument. Furthermore, his building would serve Protestants, Catholics and Jews. A single-spire motif would imply one religion...
...guarantee of loans that included the fine-arts provision. Last week ground was broken for the first major project to be financed by FHA under the new provision -a $40 million redevelopment of Philadelphia's shabby Society Hill section. At the 1% rate, Contractors Webb & Knapp and Chief Architect I.M. Pei will have a handsome $400,000 to spend on fine arts or sculpture to scatter among the planned five apartment towers, 225 town houses and shopping centers that replace the section's warehouses and dilapidated rooming houses...
...Sybarite's Passion. As far as historians know. Cardinal Wolsey was his own chief architect, and he certainly spared neither his talent nor his energies. When he had finished, Hampton Court probably covered eight acres of land, contained 1,000 rooms, was the largest single structure built in England since the days of the Romans. The cardinal employed 2,500 artisans and laborers, filled the place with ornaments and vessels of gold and silver, covered the beds and furnishings with the costliest silks. He had, in fact, a Sybarite's passion for finery...
Born. To Edward Durell Stone, 60, Arkansas-born architect, and Second Wife Maria Torch Stone, 35; their second child, first daughter; in London...