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COLLISION IN NEW YORK, 1945 It's been said that the World Trade Center Towers, tragically destroyed on Spetember 11, 2001, were designed to withstand the impact of a speeding jet airplane. Why would architects and engineers in the 1960s take such an unlikely event into account for their design requirements?
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PRESERVING DOO-WOP Visitors to Wildwood cross a bridge from the New Jersey mainland to the island beach resort and step back about 50 years. Rows of small-scale, multicolored motels sit beside swimming pools and copious bright green plastic palm trees. Beaming over the motels are oversized neon signs in pink, green, yellow, and blue.
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OLD AND NEW IN ESTONIA In the expressive silhouette of Tallinn, Estonia's capital city and largest port, visitors approaching from the Baltic Sea see a distinct personality split into the new and the old. The split can be traced back to 1227, when the medieval town in northeastern Europe was conceded to an order of crusading knights.
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More Building Culture The Deadly Glitz of a Grand New Hospital — BusinessWeek, 2001.1105 EditionHud Awards $150 Million To Help People With Disabilities — HUD News Release, 2001.1031 Architecture May Never Be the Same — AP at Yahoo News, 2001.1030 Group Tries to Rescue 1943 Lighthouse — New York Times, 2001.1029 (registration required) Columbia To Build Student Center — Chicago Tribune, 2001.1029 So You Want To Be A Planning Director? — Planetizen, 2001.1029 Big-Thinker Architects Desperately Needed — Toronto Star, 2001.1029 Back To The Future — Flint Journal, 2001.1028 Strictly For Faux Village People — Guardian Unlimited, 2001.1028 Public Development Does Not Have To Be Ugly — Pittsburg Post-Gazette, 2001.1028 Suspending More Than Disbelief — Baltimore Sun, 2001.1028 Designs on Spitalfields — U.K. Times, 2001.1028 Architect Richard Seifert Dies — U.K. Times, 2001.1027 Glasgow's Architectural Legacy Crumbling — Scotsman Online, 2001.1027 Lents Project Bridges City And Suburb — Portland Business Journal, 2001.1026 Arcturis' Business Architects Design More Than Floor Space — St. Louis Business Journal, 2001.1026 Fast-Growth Firms Share Secrets of Success — ZweigWhite Press Release, 2001.1025 Task Force Lays Out Grand Plan For Pittsburgh's Riverfronts — Pittsburg Post Gazette, 2001.1023 Sheppard Robson Wins Green Light For 'Stunning' Reading Scheme — Architects' Journal, 2001.1023 Foster's World Squares Scheme To Start In Earnest — Architects' Journal, 2001.1022
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