Back to the future :An innovative midcentury structure gets long-overdue recognition-and an upgrade
By: Amelar, Sarah
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Publisher: New York BNP Media 2019Edition: Vol.207(2), February.Description: 35-37.Subject(s): ARCHITECTURE CONSERVATION (AR-CONS)Online resources: Click here :
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Architectural recordSummary: Culver City, California, had an unexplained anomaly for 54 years. On a banal high school campus sits a 1964 building that looks, from above, like an enormous origami crane with a broad fanned tail, perched amid the surrounding suburban sprawl. This is the Robert Frost Auditorium, named for the California-born poet. From the ground, it resembles a giant scalloped seashell, with a dramatic flying buttress at one end, recalling Eero Saarinen’s sculpturally expressive buildings. Like them, the Frost is a work of engineering bravura, with its overarching roof of pleated thin-shell concrete, only 4 inches thick, and clear span of 240 feet.
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Culver City, California, had an unexplained anomaly for 54 years. On a banal high school campus sits a 1964 building that looks, from above, like an enormous origami crane with a broad fanned tail, perched amid the surrounding suburban sprawl. This is the Robert Frost Auditorium, named for the California-born poet. From the ground, it resembles a giant scalloped seashell, with a dramatic flying buttress at one end, recalling Eero Saarinen’s sculpturally expressive buildings. Like them, the Frost is a work of engineering bravura, with its overarching roof of pleated thin-shell concrete, only 4 inches thick, and clear span of 240 feet.
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