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REVOLUTIONARY DOMES A dome-shaped house that can rotate 300 degrees? It may sound quirky, but this is the product of Canadian company Sunspace Rotating Homes. They design and build these structures, mainly on small hillside and infill sites, in Canada and the United States.
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BOSTON AIR RIGHTS Creating urban land where none existed before seems to be a Boston tradition. Dredging of the Charles River and leveling of hills in the 1800s transformed a shallow backwater into the stylish Back Bay neighborhood. Now developable "plots" are being created by leasing of "air rights" over the portion of the Massachusetts Turnpike that traverses downtown.
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More Building and Construction Skyscrapers Survive the Shock of September 11 — Reuters at Yahoo News, 2002.0925Housing Starts Edge Down 2.2 Percent in August — BuildingOnline, 2002.0924 Built World Needs an Obesity Summit — Opinion at Sydney Morning Herald, 2002.0923 Bay Agg Redevelopment Offers Chance to Shape City's Future — Bay City Times, 2002.0922 Plan Chosen for Redesign of a Plaza at 55 Water St — New York Times, 2002.0921 Art Institute Scales Down Addition Plan — Chicago Tribune, 2002.0918 Congress Backs Bill to Improve Building-Failure Investigation — House Committee on Science News Release, 2002.0917 Rogers Plans Futuristic Tower to Dwarf Lloyd's — Independent Digital, 2002.0917 Compensation Plan for Leaky Homes Deleted — New Zealand Herald, 2002.0917 Form and Function: The Twain Shall Meet — Hartford Courant, 2002.0916 Get Building Industry Back to Basics — Opinion at New Zealand Herald, 2002.0914 Thinking Outside the House: The Garage as Annex — Chicago Tribune, 2002.0913 Bold Ideas Sought for New World Trade Center Design — Buidling Design & Construction, 2002.0912 Skyscrapers Need Faster Exits — BBC News, 2002.0911 Zero at Ground Zero — International Herald Tribune, 2002.0910 Port Authority Sued over WTC Tanks — New York Times, 2002.0910 CSA Publishes World’s First Standard for Fibre Reinforced Polymers — Canadian Standards Association press release, 2002.0909 New Thinking to Make Skyscrapers Safer — Scientific American, 2002.0909 9/11 Prompts New Caution in Skyscraper Design — New York Times, 2002.0909 How the Twin Towers Fell and 102 Minutes Unfolded — New York Times, 2002.0909 New Building Replaces Symbol of Japan Inc. — Yahoo News, 2002.0906 California Senate Passes Construction Defect Reform Law for Condos — BuildingOnline, 2002.0904
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