Word: pavilion
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Architect-Designer K. I. Rozdestvensky, who designed the Russian pavilion at the 1939 World's Fair and the Russian exhibit in Brussels last summer, has set the tone of the show with a giant, 54-ft. curving aluminum fin: a slice of the universe, crisscrossed with red and yellow traceries of satellites, surrounded by full-scale models of the buglike Sputnik I and the heavy cone that carried the dog Laika into orbit. In the background rise four 48-ft. triangular columns, showing heroic Russians more than twice life-size over legends such as: THERE IS NO ILLITERACY...
...Orleans Architect Arthur Q. Davis, 39, partner in the firm of Curtis & Davis, proved that a man does his best when he builds to please himself. Davis was both his own client and architect, set out to build a "carefree pavilion'' beside his house as "a retreat from the numerous activities connected with living in a house with a growing family." Davis ensured that he would be detached both physically and emotionally from the backyard by setting his retreat on steel posts so that it seems to float above the pond. The 2¼-inch-thick vaulted concrete...
...indication of Arab-Israeli feelings, Lebanon's Parliament exploded in rage for 3½ hours last week at the conduct of Lebanon's foremost international statesman, U.N. General Assembly President Charles Malik. Malik's crime: he had stepped into the Israeli pavilion while touring an international trade fair at Manhattan's Coliseum, and actually sipped champagne with Israeli officials. "Shameful and treacherous," said Foreign Minister Hussein Oweini. "He should have died of thirst rather than drink Israeli champagne," cried Deputy Jean Aziz...
...Ulbricht, and other flunkies with high titles, Nikita bowled on to the fair, with police making way for him through the crowds (a process referred to in the Communist press as "indescribable scenes of friendship"). In a spirited tour he tossed off a glass of champagne at the French pavilion ("One cannot refuse such a pretty girl"), accepted a British...
Near the domed "Idea Building" will be a fan-shaped, multilevel exhibition hall, glassed in and covered with an accordion-pleated aluminum roof. Between the two buildings, the U.S. plastics industry will construct an all-plastic pavilion made of 70 interlocked plastic sections shaped like hexagonal umbrellas. Separate from both will be a display of 21 U.S. auto models, a pool for U.S.-made boats, and a Circarama similar to the 360° movie screen that proved a hit at the Brussels World's Fair...