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POWER TOOLS — THE ROUTER The router is an undisputed king of power-tool versatility. It can shape, joint, plane, trim, carve, drill, and slice wood. It's tops for cutting joinery ranging from simple to fanciful. Want to shape an edge or make a molding? With even a small selection of shapely router bits, you can create nearly an infinite number of variations.
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TREE SCULPTURE ENGINEERING Contemporary interpretations of themes from Native American culture grace the recently expanded Mohegan Sun Casino in Uncasville, Connecticut. These architectural elements include free-standing sculptural "trees" that spread their branches to create a variety of overhead canopies. Although these trees, designed by the interior architecture firm The Rockwell Group, do not support any of the building's structure, their fabrication posed significant challenges to consulting engineers at M.G. McLaren, P.C.
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More Building and Construction Building for Culture — Belfast Telegraph, 2002.0226Orange County, the Housing Lab — Los Angeles Times, 2002.0225 New Airport Thrusts Travel Toward Future — Detroit News, 2002.0224 Polygamy Poses Challenge to Housing — AP at Architecture Guide, 2002.0222 Multifamily Housing Shows Resilience, Despite Ailing Economy — National Association of Home Builders, 2002.0221 A Higher Power, but No Power Tools — New York Times, 2002.0221 Housing Market Index Slips Two Points in February — BuildingOnline, 2002.0220 Building a Better Bridge — Sacramento Bee, 2002.0220 Home Building Data Up — CNN, 2002.0219 Philadelphia to Get Its Tallest Apartment Building — New York Times, 2002.0217 Olympic Venues Offer Medal-Caliber Architecture — AIArchitect, 2002.0215 Edition Housing Market Index Slips Two Points In February — National Association of Home Builders, 2002.0215 DePaul's Building Boom Sent Neighbors No Shock Waves — Chicago Tribune, 2002.0214 Hart's Architect Row Embarrassment — BBC News, 2002.0214 Unprecedented Pact Hangs Over Stadium Job in Seattle — ENR, 2002.0211 Drawing on Experience — Boston Herald, 2002.0210 The Changing Look of the New Harlem — New York Times, 2002.0210 Analyzing the Towers' Fall — Newsday, 2002.0206 Tilt-Up Main Street — BDC, 2002.01 Edition
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