Word: islamabad
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Minaret Exhaust. A prime example of what pleases is the $15 million Nuclear Research Center in West Pakistan, the first phase of which has just been completed in the sleepy village of Nilor, 17 miles north of the present capital, Rawalpindi, and close to Islamabad, the projected new capital for all Pakistan. Says an official of the Pakistan Institute of Science and Technology: "We asked him to create a design that would reflect our Islamic architecture with in the structural limitations posed by the reactor...
Grace & Delight. So pleased was the Pakistani government with the new reactor that last week it gave Stone the staggering commission to design its new capital at Islamabad. Working with a budget approaching $100 million, Stone will design five government structures, including the presidential residence, in the new capital's 50-block central core...
Ayub himself did not seem too comfortable as the five-day tour wore on. At Islamabad, where Pakistan is building a new capital, Liu planted a Chinese tallow tree, declaring, "We hope that it grows and flourishes like the friendship between Pakistan and China." Asked Ayub, in his clipped Sandhurst English: "It becomes a big tree, does it?" And at a banquet where Liu unexpectedly offered not only a toast but also a prepared text for the press, the Pakistani President-more likely in reference to the meal than the occasion-intoned coolly, "I hope you have...
Verses from the Holy Koran echoed in the sumptuous banquet hall of the garish new six-story hotel that stands almost alone in Pakistan's still abuilding capital of Islamabad. While Britain's Prince Philip and Iranian Foreign Minister Abbas Aram looked on, Pakistan's chief justice pronounced an oath's solemn words. Outside, a 21-gun salute boomed across the green Potwar Plateau. So last week Mohammed Ayub Khan, 57, was inaugurated as Pakistan's first elected President...
...Bentley: William Leonard Pereira, 54, an architect from Chicago who is pinning more and more of the state of California on his drawing board. Pereira's name is unknown to most Americans, and of course among professionals he hardly ranks with Athenian Constantinos Doxiadis, planner of Islamabad, the huge new capital of Pakistan. Nor does he rate with such a giant as the French architect who calls himself Le Corbusier, or with prestigious Oscar Niemeyer and Lucio Costa, designers of Brazil's new capital, Brasilia. Seventy-five-year-old Le Corbusier?having published theoretical plans for doing over Barcelona, Bogot?...