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VOLUME 1 14
4RT OF 4RCHITECTURE
New office building in London go Àrchitect Eero Saarinen's U.S. Embassy in Grosvenor Square dis111ppoints the leaders 0! the British architectural professioT1r-a rowndup o[ oriticism /rom abroaà.
Portico museum 86
The biggest pioture in the Àmon Carter Museum is a panorama of Fort Worth.
Portico restaurant 90
The biggest eye-feast at the Sluft Shirt near Los Àngeles is a view of Newport Bay.
Parkinson's Iore 92
À worlàly professor examines the plight of the creatwe professions and finds them wanting but not asking--pointed observations by c. N orthcote Parkinson.
N oteworthy buildings 96 IBM: Àn office at home, a laboratory abroad . .. . Two jet-age hangars. Friendly sohool . . • . Playful playground . ... Chapel for a boys' school.
BUSINESS OF BUILDING
Design f or a new housing market: the old 119 Meeting the special hou.sing needs of the elderly involves a new approach to apartment design and site pian. Social research points the way.
New life for city industries 108 Cincinnati shows how urban renewal can give inàustry a chance to stay downtown.
CITIES
Paolo Soleri's visionary city 111 On a scroll eoo f eet long a highly imagmative architect in 4rizona plots a "mesa city" which may profoundly affect the practical shape o[ cities in thc years to come.
'L'EGHNOLOGY
Pittsburgh's dome gets ready 122 One of the largest clear-span roofs in the world, the retraotable dome over the Publio Auditoriwm. is a struot11ral feat of complexity and significancc.
Curtain walls put to test 126 Two ,·esearch age11cies develov improuod sta,ularcls for perfor111a11cc and testing.
Technical brief s 128 Ba111boo geodesics /01· domes . .. a11/0111atic ho/es fol' slffl ... T-bcnms /or solrools.
Rl!:BUILDING
Dynamics in the Cen ter 132 Tito ,·ulesign o[ tho old 1'imo .f· Li/e b11 ildi11_q r1iucs Genera! D.111111111i,-., Corp. a ".'11D homo oOìoo and Rookof oller Center a oha11cc lo .,how ils .,till·!IOll//1/111 vrom,sc.
Two case studies 136 ./111 old jirehouso l-ivos on [or art ... balco11it·s nit/ hospit11l-<1p<1r/111c11/ co111•frsion..
Rebuilding roundup 138 "/?i,-e .rnfoty ..ircssod ... 11cti11ily 11p ... P/1i/adtlphit1 ,., w,11·,l,•d . .. ll<1 rtford ,•hilled.
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