Masonry Magazine April 1965 Page. 14
First National Bank in Loveland, Colorado
First National Bank in Loveland, Colorado, designed by William C. Muchow Associates, is an outstanding example of modern brick load-bearing design. The cross-shaped brick columns which run completely around the exterior stand clear of a glass curtain wall and serve both as structure and sunshade.
In the afternoon session, architect Gyo Obata, AIA, of St. Louis, and structural engineer William LeMessurier, of Boston, will discuss bearing wall design. Katselas and structural engineer Richard Gensert, of Cleveland, will describe the Pennley Park project. They will be followed by A. M. DiFerio and H. E. Moody, of Vernon C. Neal, Inc., the owner and builder, who will talk about the economics and construction of Pennley Park. The AMC cocktail party will end the first day.
Friday, May 28
Buses for the Pennley Park inspection tour will leave the Hilton at 9:30 a.m. The guests will return to the hotel for lunch, after which there will be a panel and audience discussion. Conference speakers will be panelists. All proceedings will be taped, transcribed, edited, and published for a booklet for specifiers and editors throughout the nation.
One significant aspect of the conference is that prominent building industry magazine editors will act as session chairman. They include Bernard Spring, AIA, contributing editor, Architectural Forum; Burton Holmes, AIA, senior editor, Progressive Architecture; Robert Fischer, senior editor, Architectural Record; Robert Zilly, editor, Building Construction; and Charles Griffin, Jr., associate editor, Engineering News-Record.
In addition to bringing heads of architectural schools and government specifiers to the load-bearing conference, the Allied Masonry Council is shortly to begin research on another major load-bearing project. It is to be a major and definitive motion picture on load-bearing masonry design in three phases: (1) The old brick bearing wall buildings of the famed Chicago "school" of architecture (they were, in fact, the nation's first skyscrapers); (2) the high-rise structures, some of them 18 stories tall, built after World War II in Switzerland, Germany, and England; and (3) the new load-bearing buildings in America. The last phase may include film on the Pennley Park project; the Our Lady of the Snows retirement community in East St. Louis; a Loveland, Colorado, bank, and a 17-story brick apartment house being planned for construction in Denver.
AMC has just finished production of a major new booklet for public school administrators on the trend toward
the design and construction of the "compact" masonry school. By definition, a "compact" school is of nearly windowless brick design. Some compacts are square, some have interior courtyards, some even are circular. In the near future, some are expected to be high-rise.
The booklet discusses the educational reasons for the compact school, quotes comments and testimonials from educators on teaching in the new environment, describes load-bearing and other design techniques, gives comparative cost figures favorable to masonry, discusses the visual advantages of brick and tile, and cites the contribution made by mason contractors and today's bricklayers to building efficiency and economy.
The new school booklet, entitled "News Trends in the Design/ Cost Construction of the Modern School Building," will shortly be available to all supporters of AMC. Advance orders indicate that the initial printing of 50,000 copies may soon be exhausted by mass mailings to school boards and superintendents.
The fourth task of AMC this year is to help promote the concept of craftsmanship as part of the Centennial year of the BM&PIU. Recently, AMC finished production of a 16 mm. color and sound movie entitled "Clay and Craftsmanship." Creative work was financed by AMC and mechanical production was paid for by the BM&PIU.
The film has attracted wide attention both within the industry and outside. The BM&PIU has put its own "tag" ending on the new "Clay" film to use in showings to subordinate unions. Versions without the tag will be shown to community groups of all kinds. "Clay" is intended for wide use since it covers not only the activities and skills of the bricklayer on the modern job site, but a review of famous masonry structures in history, and a display of distinguished modern masonry buildings.
The American Vocational Association recently made a second "tag" ending which is being used by SCPI with "Clay" in showings to vocational high schools. AMC has given high praise to "Clay" and may order additional prints for a distribution of its own. Latest word on the success of the AMC film, however, is that the Bureau of Apprenticeship, U. S. Department of Labor, wants to make (continued on page 32)
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