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Virginia's Executive Mansion Restored | |
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Designing Schools Together | |
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Machu Picchu Still Rock-Solid | |
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DOING UNIVERSAL DESIGN CD-ROM Review: Universal Design Exemplars by the Center for Universal Design, North Carolina State University, 2000. A Japanese garden pond with the lily pads within anyone's reach; a rustic log cabin fully accessible to wheelchair users; a museum exhibit that tells its story through touch and sound. These are a few of the recently published examples of the principles of universal design.
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VIRGINIA'S EXECUTIVE MANSION RESTORED The executive mansion of the Commonwealth of Virginia is said to be the oldest continuously occupied governor's residence in the United States. The mansion is an outstanding example of Federal style architecture, and after its recent restoration, it demonstrates that an historic house can be improved by sensitive additions. This National Historic Landmark building was completed in 1813 to the designs of Boston architect Alexander Parris. Since 1987 it has been documented in the Historic American Buildings Survey.
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DESIGNING SCHOOLS TOGETHER When the architecture firm of Fanning/Howey Associates, Inc. begins planning for a new school or renovation, they call on the help of hundreds. Although huge teams are not always the most efficient, the architects believe that ultimately they will yield the best result. This collective design work is conducted in "charrettes," or intensive, interactive, public design sessions. Teams of architects, engineers, and educational facilities planners set up design stations in a central location such as a school district's headquarters.
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MACHU PICCHU STILL ROCK-SOLID Machu Picchu, the gem of Peru's Inca heritage, a huge sacred city nestling between two mountain peaks 8400 feet (2,550 meters) up in the Andes, has taken its knocks in recent years. Enthusiastic Peruvian archeologists have tampered with some of the five centuries-old temples in the name of "restoration" and a 1,000-pound (450-kilogram) crane was dropped on a sacred sundial during the filming of a beer commercial, causing some damage.
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More Building Culture Housing Shortage Worsens In Calif. Promised Land — Detroit News, 2001.0731Bluffton Commissions Design Guideline Manual — The Island Packet, 2001.0731 ASAI Architecture Gets Work For The Sulgrave Condos — Kansas City Business Journal, 2001.0730 Richard Rogers' Urban Renaissance Team In Place — Architects' Journal, 2001.0730 Giants Of Architecture Always On View In Chicago — Miami Herald, 2001.0730 Expanding Hotel Chain Seeks Room For Architectural Chic — U.K. Sunday Times, 2001.0729 Historic Building Plans On Display — Scotsman Online, 2001.0729 Architecturally, Chicago's A Museum — Detroit Free Press, 2001.0729 Trips By Design — Miami Herald, 2001.0729 Preservation Of Urban Heritage Is Just On Paper — Kathimerini, 2001.0729 Top Glasgow Architect Hits At 'dim' Edinburgh — U.K. Sunday Times, 2001.0729 Tudor Perfection In Its Rightful Setting — U.K. Sunday Times, 2001.0729 Eyes of Chicago Turn to Plan for a New Landmark — New York Times, 2001.0728 (registration required) Urban Planning: It's Time for a Foreign Concept to Hit Home in the U.S. — Washington Post, 2001.0728 Saarinen's TWA Terminal and the Moment of Truth — AIArchitect, 2001.0727 Edition Stars Try to Save Largest Cinerama — AP at Yahoo News, 2001.0727 More Blots On The Landscape? — Scotsman Online, 2001.0727 Measuring Buildings Without a Yardstick — New York Times, 2001.0722 (registration required) A Call for Design Activism — Metropolis, 2001.07 Edition
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