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PENTAGON BATTERED BUT FIRM On September 11, when an American Airlines Boeing 757 crashed into the Pentagon, home of the U.S. Department of Defense (DoD), about 20,000 people were at work in this, the largest office building in the world. Yet according to the DoD casualty update on October 1, only 125 Pentagon employees were killed along with the 64 from the fated airliner.
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REBUILDING IN NEW YORK It has been just over two weeks since terrorist attacks on the World Trade Center led to the collapse of the landmark twin towers. To varying degrees, and for those who can manage it, the routines of Manhattan have restarted. The city, in its myriad ways, is going about the work of going back to work.
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BEYOND DISASTER In our second week since the terrorist disaster in New York, Washington, and Pennsylvania, emergency crews continue to work on rescue and recovery, families, friends, a nation, and the world mourn their losses, and most of the U.S. struggles toward normalcy in our daily lives.
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More Architecture News UK Big Guns Dig In For Downturn — Architects' Journal, 2001.1004SOM Wins Census Bureau Headquarters — Archibot, 2001.1002 GSA Chooses Skidmore, Owings & Merrill to Design Suitland Census Headquarters — Newswire at Excite, 2001.1002 Empire State Building Reopens — BBC News, 2001.0929 An Artful Symbol Reopens — Los Angeles Times, 2001.0928 Postmodern Architect Michael Graves Chosen To Design Institute Expansion — Star Tribune, 2001.0927 All Hope Lost For NY Victims' Relatives — BBC News, 2001.0927 China Still Follows High-Rise Ambitions — Asia Times, 2001.0927 Industry Woes End Pritzker Tower Plan — Chicago Tribune, 2001.0926 Architects, Planners and Residents Wonder How to Fill the Hole in the City — New York Times, 2001.0926 (registration required) Architects, Planners and Residents Wonder How to Fill the Hole in the City — New York Times, 2001.0926 (registration required) Cambridge Urges Harvard to Donate — AP at Architecture Guide, 2001.0925 Plan For Lower Towers On Trade Centre Site — Sydney Morning Herald, 2001.0922 Terrorist Ringleader Was An Architect And Urban Planner — Architectural Record, 2001.0920 Second Survey Planned for Buildings Near Trade Center — ENR, 2001.0920 WTC Landlord Envisions 4 New Towers — AP at Yahoo News, 2001.0920 Should We? — Boston Globe, 2001.0920 Developer Vows To Rebuild Trade Centre — Architects' Journal, 2001.0918
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