A superteam including Gordon Bunshaft, Wallace K. Harrison, and Edward Durell Stone (architects of Lever House, the Metropolitan Opera House, and 2 Columbus Circle, respectively) proposed putting the World Trade Center on the East River, in 1961, until the plan's western partner, New Jersey, balked.
The paving stone's designer, architect Charlie MacKeith, said although people would walk over the stones, the reactions they prompt was just as important as the stone itself.
Mr. Hartford chose Stone as architect... and smacked his lips over the poetic justice of it.
Marginal in all three, he started, in the 1880's, taking pictures, or what he called "photographic documents," for architects, stone masons, iron workers, antiquarians, illustrators, sign makers, archivists and painters, including Derain, Matisse, Utrillo and Vlaminck.
Goodyear had met Stone while the architect was helping design the museum's first permanent home.
At the Cathedral of the Immaculate Conception in Albany, built in 1848 from Portland stone, its preservation architect, John Mesick, said, "you can take your hand and pull off chunks as big as apple pies".
by David Vincent Whenn you have finished at the Museo Nacional de Antropología, I'll meet you outside by the stone sculpture," my architect friend Manolo Mestre tells me after suggesting a trip to a few of the cultural gems where Capitalinos, not tourists, hang out.
For example, skilled Egyptian architects, surveyors, stone cutters, and builders used high quality measures to built miraculously large pyramids (e.g., The Great Pyramid of Giza, circa 2,560 BC).
Therefore, the height of the mantapa and the overall size of the temple were limited by the length of the stone shafts that the architects were able to obtain from the quarries.
Then we pass into the museum, through a giant twisting canyon of sand-like stone, conceived by the architect to recall Moses's parting of the Red Sea.
Considering that a painting went for more than $50 million, the Kaufmann House, in Palm Springs, Calif., a 1946 Modernist landmark in glass, steel and stone designed by the architect Richard Neutra, was a veritable bargain.
