Word: rooftops
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...suggests, but rather as a place to be moved through. The architects' model shows a diagonal circulation path leading from the Freshman Union to the stairway and into the central Yard as the plaza's single strongest feature. Such understated treatment, and the assumption that the Pusey Library's rooftop will have the same character as the ground plane of the old Yard, is a compromise solution which, thus far, is unconvincing. Here is a new environmental element which deserves more innovative treatment. Having opted for an underground building, the designers might have created a student plaza on its roof...
...look next at the plant materials to be used in this architectural landscape. Rooftop planting reduces the issue to one of shrubbery. Within the past year or so, shrubs have been appearing in the Yard at an alarming rate and are totally out of scale and out of character with the vital elements of the Yard described above. In some areas, notably those deemed by the University's landscape office to be residential in scale, the shrubbery seems to work well. A successful example is, once again, the court between Matthews and Strauss, and, potentially, the Canaday court...
...Pusey Library will have a liberal supply of shrubbery on its non-plaza rooftop, trees nearby where soil is deeper, and smaller plants ranged around the windows and light wells. One can only hope that the Yard's planners will resist the temptation to sow an "ever-green belt" of shrubs across the Yard. The introduction of an element of this scale has already proven to be one element too many--the "accent" which destroys the balance and integrity of a serene environment...
Such hell-for-leather legwork has become almost routine at the Herald, the strongest link in the Knight newspaper chain.* Pulitzer-prizewinning Reporter Gene Miller has the Herald's carte blanche to travel to big stories: the Attica prison insurrection, the Howard Johnson rooftop Shootout in New Orleans, the court-martial of Lieut. William Galley. After nearly three years of digging into Miami operations of the Federal Housing Authority, Herald reporters tracked down the existence of an alleged political slush fund for Florida Senator Edward J. Gurney. Although the paper backed Nixon in 1972, it has kept reporters busy...
Specific projects already underway: high density fish culture to provide local protein from basement-sized 'fish factories,' hydroponic, high yield rooftop gardens for vegetables, solar power devices, wind power tests, non-wasting waste disposal and utilization, junk reclamation and distribution, and community, co-operative production and transportation...