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...facilities, including those for eating, are designed to handle tourists who now visit the Capitol at a rate of 30,000 a day. Every detail of the present painted sandstone exterior will be copied as exactly as possible in durable white marble. However, an added triangular pediment, similar to the one already in place over the east front, and several columns worth of widening are proposed...
Colonnades and a Greek pediment make the front of the rambling country house look like a set from Gone With the Wind. And the old massa who lives there fits the movie title too: Nikita Khrushchev, still hale at 70 but "retired" to his rent-free government dacha outside Moscow on a pension of $330 a month. After weeks of conscientious sleuthing, U.P.I.'s Henry Shapiro reported other details. Wife Nina gets another $132, and a five-man staff and limousine are thrown in, courtesy of the current Soviet management, but Khrushchev rarely uses...
Overshadowing the façade was the high dome, 8,909,200 lbs. of cast-iron ribs and plates so big at the bottom perimeter that an arc of it overhung the main wall-an engineering oddity concealed by the pediment topping the colonnade in front of the wall. Some critics prized this set-out look of the dome for the "cascade" effect it gave to a viewer standing close and looking sharply up. Classicists, however objected that the style varied too much from Old World models, whose domes are, set well back so that walls and roof can buttress...
...Capitol sat down to write a letter to the sculptor who was to design the statue that would adorn it. What or whom should the statue represent? ''We have too many Washingtons," wrote the captain firmly on May 11, 1855. "We have America in the pediment. Victories and Liberties are rather pagan emblems, but a Liberty, I fear, is the best we can get." And so Sculptor Thomas Crawford set to work in his studio in Rome. The model he made was nearly lost at sea. but eventually his 14,985-lb. statue, cast in bronze, was raised...
...architects set out more consciously to create their own unique vision of a brave new world than in the 20th century. Frank Lloyd Wright's prairie houses were meant to open on a new democratic vista, where individualism and variety could prevail. In Germany, the Bauhaus scrapped pilaster, pediment and ornaments and created buildings with flat roofs and walls of glass. In France, Le Corbusier prophesied skyscraper cities where man's habitation would be "a machine to live...