Repository: UIHistories Project: Dedication - Assembly Hall [PAGE 6]

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ARCHITECTS for the Assembly Hall o r * He rison & Abramovitz, New York, O M 0* notion's most outstanding firm*. Previously, the firm has designed the United NaWoni. buildings, Time-Life b u i l d i n g , RCA Music Mall, and the Philharmonic Hall. The latter ti 9** of Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts, lor which Harrison & Abramovitz are the supervising architects. The firm also is d o i n g the new Metropolitan Opera House at Lincoln Center. The American Telephone and Telegraph Company b u i l d i n g at the 1964 New York World's Fair is being done by this firm. It also has designed numerous buildings at Harvard and Brandeis Universities as well as a new theater at Dartmouth. Mr. Abramovitz is a graduate of the University of Illinois. GENERAL CONTRACTORS are the Urbona Urn of Felmley-Dickerson Company, the builder of many structures on the University campus, i n cluding the new a d d i t i o n to the l l l i n i Union. The late Mr. Felmley was an lllini athlete and alumnus. Mr. Ray Dickerson is president of the firm. Mr. Richard Foley, vice-president and project chief, is an l l l i n i alumnus and former basketball star. Among dozens of other firms participating as subcontractors are the Potter Electric Service, inc., and the R. H. Bishop Company, heating and ventilating. CONSULTANTS for the Assembly Hall include some of the greatest names in modern engineering. Ammann & Whitney, the structural engineers, are famed not only for their general work and structures but particularly for their engineering of suspension bridges — a field with application here because of the post-tension wire on the Assembly Hall. Syska & Hennessy, Inc., the mechanical and electrical engineers, are experts in their own field. Lighting by Feder has advised on the general and theater l i g h t i n g ; the firm Is best known for its work with Broadway shows. Among its recent l i g h t i n g hits have been " M y Fair Lady" a n d "Camelot." The ocouitf. cai consultants are Bolt, Beranek & Newman,

Inc., whose name is synonymous with basic development of acoustical engineering. Among the several other consultants was Or, Ralph Feck, University of Illinois expert In subsoil drainage conditions.