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...idea that it was time to get the banks out of mausoleums," explains Architect Louis Skidmore. In a radical departure from bank design, the safe-deposit vault (built of steel, set in granite, with a 30-ton door) will be on the main floor, in full view (with a spotlight on it at night). Another feature: a penthouse for executive offices and dining room. Like the Lever Building, the air-conditioned bank's windows will be sealed to keep out dust and grime. Says Skidmore: "We're trying to make the bank more human...
Carefree Expatriate. Although he looks and acts like a Yankee intellectual, Governor Herter has spent less than half his life in Massachusetts, and his background is more bohemian than Brahmin. His architect grandfather, the first Christian Herter, came to the U.S. from Stuttgart at a time when the country was accumulating culture as rapidly and indiscriminately as it was founding fortunes. He found an eager clientele, built great mansions from Fifth Avenue (for J. P. Morgan, William Vanderbilt) to Nob Hill (for Mark Hopkins), and gilded them with the treasures of Europe. But grandfather had no taste for business...
...idea for the "Hall of Our History" came to Milwaukee-born Eric Gugler, an architect who has already built a dozen memorials, but says he has "never been able to find a history of the U.S. in chronological order and in visual form in any one place." The granite history he plans will cost a monumental $25 million, to be raised by public subscription. Gugler's blueprints for the monument, which will take ten years to build, call for a roofless, granite structure (247 feet wide, 418 feet long and 90 feet high), fitted inside with high relief sculptures...
...Started. Scrabble was invented in 1933 by a New York architect named Alfred M. Butts, a man who has never enjoyed the game as fully as others because he is an indifferent speller. Butts and his wife played the game through the '30s and '40s, and made some 500 sets for their friends and the odd purchaser, but they never put it on the market. In 1948 a social worker named James Brunot took it over and invented the name "Scrabble" (dictionary meaning: "to scrape, paw or scratch with the hands or feet"). He and his wife started...
What makes architecture modern? Writing in the current Harper's, Architect Harrison Gill, 56, of Chattanooga, Tenn., answers his own question with one word: "Tension." Writes Gill...