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This need and solution as seen in the changing skyline of New York City shows only that the architect has been able to express with complete, esthetic frankness the purpose of the structure. The long lines of glass, stainless steel and brick are fresh and esthetically sound, and do not collect as much dust as did their predecessors with layer upon layer of excremental ornament...
...comfortable fortune. He acquired the franchise for a hockey team and formed a syndicate which erected the $3,000,000 Cincinnati Garden (hockey, boxing, wrestling and conventions). A Cincinnati sport and amusement promoter, Willis Vance, who had dreamed of such an enterprise for a long time, still keeps an architect's drawing of his project hanging in his office, draped in black-in memory of not getting up early enough in the morning...
...last alternative has a good deal to recommend it. If one copy of each exam were posted in the Lamont display cases, the library staff would no longer have to worry with six copies, the janitor would not have the present mess to clean up, and the architect could have the satisfaction of knowing that his gleaming cases are being put to good use. If the Philatelic Society can find time to put up the stamps which are now on exhibition, the library staff could surely find time to display examinations, especially since there are more examinees in the College...
...churches of the past, the new buildings designed by such brilliant moderns as Wright, the Saarinens, Antonin Raymond and Pietro Belluschi are "functional" in that they use the latest structural materials and techniques in such a way as to emphasize rather than conceal the way they were built. As Architect Belluschi tells prospective clients, he loves the Gothic far too much to design a cheap imitation that conceals a steel frame behind an ivied stone facade...
...citizens of Hartford, Connecticut. Although he is almost 80, and has never before designed a theater plant, Mr. Wright is well up on the latest developments and trends in theater planning. This understanding, as well as he imagination and perspective which have prompted some to call him "the outstanding architect of the twentieth century," are apparent in his model of the Hartford playhouses, now being shown in Fogg Museum...