Word: overhangs
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...cars will be considerably shorter than present models, with wheelbases ranging from 106 to 113 in. The overhang of 1959-model U.S. cars will be reduced, thus cutting the overall length by 2 to 3 ft. The new cars will be rounded and tucked in. They will also be much lighter. Wide use of aluminum, coupled with a redesigning of thousands of individual parts from bolts to caps, will cut the overall weight to around 2,500 Ibs., almost one-third less than the weights of the 1959 Ford, Chevy and Plymouth. This in turn will mean...
...William Zimmerman of Sarasota, 42, got the job of designing the twelve-classroom Brookside Junior High School. Zimmerman proceeded to divide his project into a campus of long, low-slung buildings attached to a central, triangular walk. He installed floor-to-ceiling school windows, protected by an 8-ft. overhang to keep sun from desks. But what wowed the school board was that the building came in $40,000 under the estimate. "When they saw the building, they were completely sold," says Hiss triumphantly. "Their minds had been closed since the age of seven. I finally got them sane. After...
...Weese went native, decided to use mahogany, with the help of modern protective chemicals, and based his design on the primitive postcard hut-upside down. He designed the embassy as a hollow square raised high up from a concrete platform on graceful stilts, shaded by a broad mahogany overhang and centered on a pool and an airy stairway in the interior court. Though the offices are to be individually air conditioned, the hollow building is designed to be cool on its own. It is one room deep all around for through ventilation, with a veranda-corridor rimming the interior court...
...Guggenheim Foundation accepted his design (cost: $2,000,000), but New York City authorities prosaically declared that the museum would violate building laws; among other things, the building's 6-ft. overhang was against regulations.* Last week Wright, who has described the building code as being "for fools," showed up at a hearing in Manhattan. He grandly agreed to eliminate the overhang, made plans to appeal the other objections...
...Manhattan's building code, there must be no overhang beyond the building line, save for 18 inches of ornamentation. One notable exception: a bare-breasted Venus (by Sculptor Wheeler Williams) on the facade of the Parke-Bernet Galleries. Yearly rent to city for the protruding anatomy...