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FAST CAMPUS FOR SUN In just 11 months between preliminary design and occupancy of the first building, Sun Microsystems and the international architecture firm Kaplan McLaughlin Diaz (KMD) created a new corporate campus in the "Silicon Valley" city of Newark, California.
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BOSTON RECONNECTING As inconceivable as it may seem today, a wide swath of downtown Boston — including vibrant ethnic neighborhoods, historic pre-Revolutionary buildings, and a tangled but charming street pattern — was mowed down like weeds in the mid-1950s to make way for an elevated highway. This was decades before the Boston-as-perennial-boomtown that we've known recently. A master plan prepared in 1956 by I.M. Pei and Associates stated darkly: "Stagnation and resultant blight are the condition of the Boston peninsula."
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More Building and Construction Heathrow T5 'will Go-Ahead' Despite Terror Attacks — Architects' Journal, 2001.0925Making Skyscrapers Safer Using Hollywood Designs — Ottawa Citizen, 2001.0925 Stage Set For Sir Cameron To Build Himself A Castle — This Is London, 2001.0924 Most Surrounding Buildings Safe — ENR, 2001.0924 A New View of High-Rise Firefighting — Los Angeles Times, 2001.0924 Reshaping Tragic Ruins — Newsday, 2001.0924 Salvage Operations — Baltimore Sun, 2001.0923 No Building Code, Architect or Engineer Could Have Protected Trade Center Towers — Washington Post, 2001.0922 Reach For the Sky — Washington Post, 2001.0922 Where Towers Fell, Developers See A Future — Boston Globe, 2001.0921 Take Steps From Start Of Project To Enhance Overall 'curb Appeal' — Houston Business Journal, 2001.0921 Glass Houses — Puget Sound Business Journal, 2001.0921 New Legislation Puts Teeth Into State's Accessibility Laws — San Antonio Business Journal, 2001.0921 Collapsing Towers Caused Seismic Shock — BBC News, 2001.0920 Pentagon's Resiliency Amazes Engineers — ENR, 2001.0920 Are High-Rise Office Towers A Thing Of The Past? — Business DAy, 2001.0920 Housing Market Index Slips Five Points In September — NAHB, 2001.0919 New Towers Likely to Be Smaller — Los Angeles Times, 2001.0918
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