Masonry Magazine July 1978 Page. 23
Ligo & Assoc. Wins AIA Award for Masonry Restoration Project
William A. Morgan. Jr. (right), president of the Butler (Pa.) Chamber of Commerce and owner of the Morgan Management Building seen in the background, congratulates architect N. Lee Ligo of N. Lee Ligo & Associates, Slippery Rock, Pa., for his renovation design of the Morgan building. The project earned Ligo the top award for renovation by the Pittsburgh chapter of the American Institute of Architects. Formerly an abandoned warehouse, the Morgan building was recycled into a professional office complex. Covering the shell is a brick facade of arches dubbed "brick in a virtuoso role." Hugh Stubbins, FAIA, who most recently has been acclaimed for his design of the Citicorp Center in Manhattan, chaired the jury that selected Ligo's work.
Notable Quotes
"THE GOOD IS OFT INTERRED WITH THEIR BONES"
To paraphrase Shakespeare, the good that business does is often buried in their annual reports, their mishaps crop up on the evening news, on the front pages, and between the covers of books. I say this not defensively, I hope, but rather to face up to the reality that in a free society, free enterprise and a free press are both properly very much in the public eye and on the public mind. This means, it seems to me, that we in business should take a fresh look at the press in all media and make ourselves more accessible. It means we should have our say and respond to their questions. It means we need to better understand that the responsible press is not our natural enemy, that they are interested in us as legitimate sources of news and not as scapegoats. But we must be willing to meet with them as the news breaks and not necessarily on our terms or only when we are pleading a particular case or cause. A consistent "no comment" can result in a half-told story, and the public may be left to speculate, too often wrongly, that business has something to hide.-R. Manning Brown, Jr., Chairman, New York Life Insurance Company.
EATING UP PAGES AND MONEY
The regulatory giant is alive and as ravenous as ever. Proposed, codified and revised federal rules and standards last year consumed 57,027 pages of the Federal Register. In one month alone of this year, they filled 5,996 pages. Direct federal outlays for regulating business are expected to reach $3.5 billion in fiscal 1977. That's a 21 percent increase over $2.9 billion in fiscal 1976. By the end of fiscal 1978, regulatory expenditures are expected to approach $3.8 billion. President Carter will have his work cut out to meet his stated goal of stemming the tide of federal regulation Enterprise, Journal of the National Association of Manufacturers.
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