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Both sloops were designed by famed Yacht Architect Olin Stephens; both are 69 ft. 7 in. in overall length; both are sleek products of the complex 12-meter formula, which balances off such speed-governing factors as sail area, waterline length and mast height...
...best of the new magicians of concrete is Mexico's Felix Candela, 48, whose soaring shell structures are the pride of Mexico City, useful for everything from churches to bandstands. A Spanish-born architect who was once Spain's ski champion, Candela fought with the Loyalists (his brother, now his business partner, served with Franco), migrated via a concentration camp to Mexico in 1939. Fascinated as a boy with the way Spanish masons formed domes of hollow bricks, Candela went on to study the reinforced-concrete forms developed by Spain's Eduardo Torroja and Switzerland...
...shells to build a big church for $41,000, a warehouse for as little as 50? per sq. ft. Clients, including real-estate developers in Texas and a restaurant chain in Florida, have found them not only cheap but handsome. In his just completed lagoon restaurant (opposite), done with Architect Joaquin Alvarez Ordoñez, Candela uses undulating folds of great elegance. For his Santa Fe bandstand, done with Architect Mario Pani, he combined six hyperbolic paraboloids to form a 40-ft. cantilever of shelter. Candela has designed another bandstand that will soar...
...jewel-box theater was built during the reign of Elector Maximilian III Joseph (1745-77), of linden wood from the forests of Murnau, following the design of French Architect Francois de Cuvillies. In 1781 it was the scene of the first performance of Mozart's Idomeneo. But early in the 19th century the Bavarian court lost its taste for curlicues, and for a time the rococo theater served merely as storage place for scenery...
...Champagne. There was no inaugural ball, not even a modest champagne reception. It was, said Lleras, a simple ceremony "to set an example of austerity." But foreign visitors (including a six-man U.S. delegation), well-braided generals and curbside crowds turned out to honor the architect of the new Colombian ideal of the "National Front...