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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 Lennar September New Home Orders Fall 22 Percent — Building Online, 2001.1003China Presses Ahead With Tallest Tower — Guardian Unlimited, 2001.1002 Replace The Towers With A Neighborhood — Business Week, 2001.1001 Building Space — Fast Company, 2001.1001 Engineers Say Materials Exist To Build High-Rises Resistant To Assault — San Francisco Chronicle, 2001.1001 Builder Balances Custom With Volume — Charlotte Business Journal, 2001.0928 New Home Sales Rise Slightly In August — National Association of Homebuilders, 2001.0927 Construction Woes At Bass Halt Museum's Reopening — Miami Herald, 2001.0926 MIT Engineers Say Architects Will Have To Rethink Tall-Building Designs. — Technology Review, 2001.0927 Demand For New Homes Holding Up, Says Barratt — Guardian Unlimited, 2001.0927 Housing Starts Decline 7 Percent In August — Building Online, 2001.0926 How Safe Are Our Skyscrapers?: The World Trade Center Collapse — MIT News, 2001.0921 Heathrow T5 'will Go-Ahead' Despite Terror Attacks — Architects' Journal, 2001.0925 Making 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
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