Masonry Magazine September 1968 Page. 36
THE COVER PHOTO
Project: Patrick F. Sullivan Apartments, Chicago, III.
Architect: Holabird & Root
General Contractor: S. N. Nielson Co.
Mason Contractor: Ruby Construction Co., Inc.
Glass Block Installation: Fred Beyer & Co.
Chicago architectural firm, Holabird & Root, has given the building a feeling of openness. Pittsburgh Corning's Vue block, with its see-through panel, was chosen to provide this openness with good daylighting in corridors, elevator lobbies and stairways. The strength of Vue block also insures the safety of elderly residents who might lean on, or accidentally fall against, the floor to ceiling panels.
Bringing Nature Indoors
(Continued from page 15)
example, the intermediate level with its own entrance ramp allows a memorial lecture room to be open for student and faculty groups while the rest of the library is closed. The lower level also has an independent and controlled entrance to the reserve book room and study area.
The main or upper level accommodates administrative offices, charging and control center, card catalog, reference section, current periodicals, rare book room, conference rooms, and rest rooms.
The mid-level provides space for a lecture hall, staff lounge, curriculum laboratory, listening facility, photographic darkroom, audiovisual workshop, and equipment storage rooms.
On the lower or ground floor are a reserve book and control center, large study and reading room, rest rooms, storage, archival work area, and a receiving and shipping center.
A white marble plaque displayed in the main lobby defines in the words of John Ruskin the purpose of this magnificent building:
When we build, let us think that we build forever. Let it not be for present delight, nor for present use alone: let it be such work as our descendents will thank us for, and let us think, as we lay stone on stone, that a time is to come when those stones will be held sacred because our hands have touched them, and that men will say as they look upon the labour and wrought substance of them, "see this our fathers did for us."
Construction Expenditures To Rise
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generally ahead of last year, Mr. Martens noted. Commercial construction is up 4.4 per cent to $7.3 billion, private educational building up 11.9 per cent to $1.15 billion, hospital construction ahead 9.7 per cent to $1.45 billion and utilities up 4.2 per cent to $6.45 billion.
"Earlier estimates had foreseen general increases in most types of public construction," Mr. Martens said, "but the requirement for a $6 billion cut in Federal spending plus continued demand for funds for defense and high interest rates indicate that many projects will have to be deferre.."
While expenditures for sewer systems will be ahead of last year, along with public hospital construction and industrial facilities, a drop in other types of public construction, notably highways and water systems, will offset any gains.
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Rockwell Lime Company 7
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Trinity White, General Portland Cement Company 4
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masonry • September, 1968