Word: architects
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...renovators go, no one quite measures up to Harry Truman. He rebuilt the White House, gutting it and replacing ancient timbers with steel and concrete. To much public displeasure, he added a balcony off the private quarters on the third floor. Like many Presidents, Truman considered himself an amateur architect and used to inspect the construction progress, leading the likes of freshman Congressman Gerald Ford through the building chaos, explaining history and design with his usual irreverence. Truman also dispensed bits and pieces of the old White House to political cronies like Speaker Sam Rayburn, whose Bonham, Texas, library still...
This building, designed by architect Rafael Moneo, will house the Center for Imaging Mesoscale Structures, one of Knowles' other science initiatives...
Only a drastic redesign of the building's original plans by architect Harry N. Cobb resulted in a building that community members felt would not disrupt the neighborhood...
...spent an exhausting 35 hours before [the MCNCDC]. The architect completely redesigned the project midway. So far, the community's involvement has yielded a better project, much more distinguishing from the former design," Zewinsky says...
...result resolved to dedicate a building to the visual arts at Harvard. Although the University tried to cajole Carpenter to donate his dollars elsewhere, Carpenter built his art center under two conditions: that the building be in close proximity to the Fogg Art Museum and that he choose the architect. Only through Carpenter's generous contributions does Harvard have a Center for the Performing Arts--and the only North American building designed by Le Corbusier...