Sydney's Opera House: Easy on the Eyes, Not the Ears

According to legend, when Danish architect Jorn Utzon entered a 1957 competition to design an opera house in Sydney, his sail-like sketches did not make the cut...

Where JetBlue Put Its Millions

Any traveler who has flown recently need not be told that air travel can be rough. With airlines systematically eliminating the niceties that once made flying...

Art: The Maturing Modern

(See Cover) Well-building hath three conditions: Commodity, Firmness and Delight. —Vitruvius Ever since man settled down under roof, he has been at the...

Design: Our Bauhaus

The influence of Cranbrook Until a decade or so ago, what was considered good modern design in America was not American at all. It was the International Style,...

Milestones: Jun. 29, 1981

DIED. John Dinkeloo, 63, architect and engineer who, with associates Kevin Roche and the late Eero Saarinen, designed such celebrated works as the CBS Building...

Art: Sensitivity & Crust

To his friends and associates, Architect Eero Saarinen was known as "a man who is always en charette." The term goes back to the heyday of Paris' Beaux Arts,...

Architecture: The Plowman's Palace

Before his death three years ago, Eero Saarinen traveled a long way to ward an architecture far beyond the glass-and-steel purism that seemed the ultimate in...

Art: Death of the Gargoyle

Yalemen, like most collegians, have long dwelt in the shadow of the gargoyle. Gothic architecture, with its encrusted spires and ogives, was the accepted way...

Art: Mussolini's Wicket

The proposed streamlined steel arch for St. Louis had already been rudely compared to a wicket (TIME, March i). Last week a more damaging comparison was made...

Openings: The Collaborators

It was the inaugural gala and they were all there, from a pride of Rockefellers to Mrs. Fred Eberstadt in her Yves St. Laurent black mink-and-vinyl coat. And...