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Engineering Forensics of Collapse | |
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Pentagon Battered but Firm | |
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ENGINEERING FORENSICS OF COLLAPSE Behind the slowly shrinking heaps of rubble in lower Manhattan and Arlington, Virginia, a phalanx of forensic engineers, supported by a variety of research grants, is working against the flow of debris as it is carted off to recycling sites and landfills, searching for clues about how three of the largest U.S. buildings were mortally wounded.
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DESIGN REVIEW ON REVUE "Private Jokes Public Places," a play by Oren Safdie, will be premiering October 12-28, 2001 at the Malibu Stage Company. Setting: Classroom in a school of architecture
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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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More Architecture News Tower Survives Greatly Exaggerated Rumors and Prepares to Reopen — New York Times, 2001.1017 (registration required)World Monuments Fund Reveals 100 Most Endangered Sites — Architects' Journal, 2001.1017 Gates Are Closing Off Treasured City Vistas — Boston Globe, 2001.1015 Attacks Shook Some Historic Buildings To Their Foundations — USA Today, 2001.1012 WWII Memorial at Issue Again — Washington Post, 2001.1011 Architects To Offer Wtc Designs As Part Of Buildboston 2001 — BuildingOnline, 2001.1009 Get World's Best Designers To Plan New NYC Landmark — Denver Post, 2001.1007 Charles Fights City Of Skyscrapers — U.K. Sunday Times, 2001.1007 Tadao Ando Scoops US Art Institute Project — Architects' Journal, 2001.1005 Savage Design Group's Office Space Wins First Place in ASID/Houston Chronicle Competition — Free Realtime, 2001.1004 AIA Announces World Trade Center Memorial Fund — Architectural Record, 2001.1003 Architect Prize Goes To Designer Of Working Environments — Helsinki Sanomat, 2001.1003 Urban Interest Groups Representing Wide Spectrum Convene to Form a Coalition for Action — Architecture Research Institute, Inc., 2001.1002 UK Big Guns Dig In For Downturn — Architects' Journal, 2001.1004 SOM Wins Census Bureau Headquarters — Archibot, 2001.1002 GSA Chooses Skidmore, Owings & Merrill to Design Suitland Census Headquarters — Newswire at Excite, 2001.1002
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