QUIZ ANSWERS ACA excellence in practice
Here are the answers... Number 1. Peachtree Center, Atlanta, USA, c.1978 The mixed-use buildings on the left were designed by developer/architect John Portman in the 1960s as six narrow office buildings connected by a network of sky bridges. The 73-floor Peachtree Plaza Hotel next to them was also designed by Portman, opened in February 1976 and is currently known as the Westin Peachtree Plaza. The black 32-storey office tower on the right was designed by SOM in 1968 and was apparently later re-clad by the Equitable Life Assurance company. The area between, which in 1976 was largely undeveloped and used for car parking, is now thriving as part of downtown Atlanta’s lively central area. Number 2. Coventry Cathedral, c.1960. Designed by Basil Spence and constructed 1956-1962, this photograph shows the chapel of Christ the Servant. Number 3. Louisiana Museum of Modern Art, Humlebaek, Denmark, c.1961. In the mid-50s the
museum’s founder, Knud W Jensen, commissioned architects Jorgen Bo and Wilhelm Wohlert to design a new building based on an existing villa. The museum contains some major works, including this Alexander Calder piece outside the main facade. Number 4. East Building, National Gallery of Art, Washington DC, c.1978. I M Pei’s extension strikes a remarkable contrast to John Russell Pope’s original neoclassical building, and is linked to it by an underground passage incorporating a dramatic water feature. The monumental scale and facades of warmcoloured stone pay homage to the older building, but without its ornament and fussy fenestration. As with Louisiana, there is major piece of sculpture, here by Henry Moore, outside the main entrance. Number 5. Engineering Building, Leicester University, c.1964. Designed by Stirling and Gowan, with engineer Frank Newby, the building was completed in 1963. The rippling ‘waves’ of the two large glass roofs, angled at 45 degrees, face north to provide illumination without direct sunlight, which
could affect delicate instruments. Number 6. Sydney Opera House (under construction), c. 1965. Designed by John Utzon, this photographs shows the precast concrete ‘shells’, each composed of a section of a 75.2 metre radius sphere, clad with 1,056,006 tiles in two colours, glossy white and matt cream. Designed in 1957, construction began in 1959, but it was not completed until 1973. Number 7 New York, c.1978. View of the city taken from the south tower of the World Trade Center looking north, with the side of the north tower on the left. The original World Trade Center towers were designed by Minoru Yamasaki in 1963 and completed in 1970. They were of course destroyed in 2001. Number 7a New York, c.1978. United Nations headquarters building, completed in 1951, was designed by a board of architects led by Wallace Harrison and built by Harrison & Abramovitz with inputs from Oscar Niemeyer and Le Corbusier. n
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