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TIMBER FRAME HOUSES Anyone who steps inside a timber-frame, or post-and-beam, house for the first time invariably comes away impressed — even a bit awed — by what is encountered. The complete structural skeleton of the house is on view, but it's not just any structure: It is like entering a strange yet beautifully natural forest of sturdy wood trunks, graceful limbs, and branches that soar high overhead.
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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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More Building and Construction Architects To Offer WTC Designs As Part Of Buildboston 2001 — Building Online, 2001.1009Itís official: construction hits a downturn — Architects' Journal, 2001.1009 Hud Grant Encourages Changes To Help Increase Housing Opportunities For People With Disabilities — HUD News Release, 2001.1009 Building for the future — Chicago Tribune, 2001.1009 Builder to clone French Quarter in Houston — Houston Business Journal, 2001.1008 Structural Shift In Pentagon Could Accelerate Demolition — ENR, 2001.1008 Half of WTC 'Bathtub' Basement Damaged By Twin Towers' Fall — ENR, 2001.1008 A Welcome End To Tall Storeys — Guardian Unlimited, 2001.1007 US Attacks To Hit Scots Home Prices — U.K. Sunday Times, 2001.1007 Can Buildings Be Designed To Resist Terrorist Attack? — UniSci, 2001.1005 Developer Says Victoria Courts Will Be Rebuilt 'with Or Without' Grant — San Antonio Business Journal, 2001.1005 Rethinking Construction Below Ground — Architects' Journal, 2001.1005 Experts Eye New Scale For Trade Center Site — Baltimore Sun, 2001.1005 For Rebuildings, Inspiration All Around — New York Times at Yahoo News, 2001.1005 County Enforces Design Criteria — Atlanta Journal-Constitution, 2001.1004 £85m Bristol Skyscraper Plan Revealed — Architects' Journal, 2001.1004 Twin Giants - What Will Fill Their Shoes? — Christian Science Monitor, 2001.1004 All-Out Effort To Build Offices — New York Post, 2001.1003 Debris Mountain Starts To Shrink — ENR, 2001.1001 Shanghai to Build World's Highest Tower Despite "9.11 Attacks" — People's Daily, 2001.0929 Housing and the Economy In The Aftermath Of The September 11 Attacks On America — National Association of Home Builders, 2001.0927
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