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...week's end, the contest judges-five veteran sailplaners grounded for the occasion-crowned the winner: Architect Andrew J. Smith, 37, a former Navy pilot from Tecumseh, Mich. Smith fetched up enough rising currents to lead the pack past the finish line at Salina, 81 miles away...
...Architect Frank Lloyd Wright has been dead for two years, but monuments to his originality are still going up. Now another of his last major buildings-the Greek Orthodox Church of the Annunciation*at Wauwatosa (outside Milwaukee)-is all but finished, and sightseers as well as worshipers are crowding...
Once he had learned to distinguish between Wright and God, Pastor Vergis found the architect reassuring and even reverent. "Mr. Wright used to say, 'We'll all be right here, in the palm of His hand,' " recalled the pastor, cupping his hands as Wright had. In the concrete and steel teacup church that followed the pattern of his cupped hands. Wright ringed the rim with a wide balcony to bring more worshipers closer to the altar...
Urban architecture then, Creese declared, requires (1) the discovery of the functions and conceptual standards of the city's components and (2) the architect's preservation of these standards while facing urban problems demanding quick solutions...
...Garden, which will be jointly owned by Graham-Paige (75%) and the Pennsylvania Railroad (25%), will hopefully be ready when the 1964 New York World's Fair opens. Designed by Los Angeles Architect Charles Luckman, onetime (1946-50) boy-wonder boss of Lever Bros. Co., the nine-acre complex will include a 25,000-seat main sports arena, a 4,000-seat auxiliary arena, a 28-story luxury hotel, a 34-story office building, and parking facilities for 3,000 cars. Only the sub-street-level waiting room and the train concourse will be kept of the old Penn...