The Sunday Times

Camelot's spell still enthralls. The biggest queues in New York this summer were at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, where crowds flocked to see the clothes Jacqueline Kennedy wore during her White House years. Laced with nuclear peril, it was the period of the grand design, fashion in high places driven by the energy of youth. Americans never had it so good. Forty years on, if you had to choose one building to sum up that period in American history, one of the top contenders would be found, not in the United States, but on the other side of the Atlantic. John M Johansen's American embassy in Dublin was one of the most controversial buildings of the time, but it has come to symbolise the golden age of American architecture.