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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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More Building Culture Defining Value and Return on Investment — AIArchitect, November 2001Law On Adams Memorial Cheered — Boston Globe, 2001.1107 Minister Says Town Planning Reforms A 'high Priority' — Architects' Journal, 2001.1106 Heritage Listing For Communications Towers — Guardian Unlimited, 2001.1106 'Timeless' BT Tower To Be Listed — This Is London, 2001.1106 New Military Housing to Relieve Shortage in San Diego — Excite, 2001.1106 Remembering The Towers — Hartford Currant, 2001.1106 Post Office Tower To Be Preserved As A Listed Building — Independent Digital, 2001.1106 Heritage Comes Under Spotlight — Belfast Telegraph, 2001.1105 Heritage Buildings Offer Promise For Developers — Edmonton Journal, 2001.1105 Wonders And Blunders — Review at Guardian Unlimited, 2001.1105 New Star Rises In Hollywood - Made Of Bricks, Mortar — Christian Science Monitor, 2001.1105 Pondering Ways to Remember Sept. 11 — AP at Architecture Guide, 2001.1105 Bridge Designed By Da Vinci Opens Nearly 500 Years Later — Cleveland News, 2001.1105 Architect Shoulders His Way Into Chicago — Boston Globe, 2001.1104 From The Sensuous To The Studious — Baltimore Sun, 2001.1104 Built To Take On Anybody — U.K. Sunday Times, 2001.1104 Demolition Looms for Landmark on Grounds of Clinton Library — Crosswalk, 2001.1102 Let's Make Sure We Do It Right — Opinion at Memphis Business Journal, 2001.1102 Design Firms Say Clients 'proceeding With Caution' — Atlanta Business Chronicle, 2001.1102 Valley Architects Honored For Excellence In Design — Phoenix Business Journal, 2001.1102 Multifaceted Restoration Of Downtown Cathedral Nears — Sacramento Business Journal, 2001.1102 $25 Million Home Of Innocents Campus Takes Shape — Louisville Business Central, 2001.1102 Local Architects Feel Economic Pains — Portland Business Journal, 2001.1102 BRPH Focusing On Orlando Design-Build Market — Orlando Business Central, 2001.1102 Even Now, a Skyline of Twins — New York Times, 2001.1102 Century Hopes Second Time's A Charm For Downtown Highrise — Houston Business Journal, 2001.1102 Top Trends To Watch For Health-Care Facility Design — Puget Sound Business Journal, 2001.1102 Concrete And Steel Magnolia — Malaysian Star, 2001.1031 GSA Gives Federal Building Projects New Image — CMD Press Release 2001.1029
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