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BUREAU ASSAR AND SOM WIN NEW NATO The North Atlantic Treaty Organization announced in January 2003 the results of an international architectural design competition for a new NATO Headquarters. They have selected a consortium made up of the London office of Skidmore, Owings & Merrill and the Belgian Bureau Assar to design the new building. Scheduled for completion in 2009, it will be located adjacent to the current NATO headquarters in Brussels, Belgium.
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25-YEAR AWARD TO DR HQ Pulitzer Prize-winning author and architect Robert Campbell, FAIA, described it as "a glass vitrine at the scale of architecture, a display case for the contents inside? The glass facets of the facade give it the character of a cut jewel." The Design Research Headquarters building in Cambridge, Massachusetts is the newest recipient of the prestigious 25-Year Award by the American Institute of Architects.
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ENGINEERING REPORT ON PENTAGON DISASTER When the Pentagon in Washington D.C. was hit by a hijacked plane on September 11, 2001, the damage and the loss of life were appalling. But the destruction was less severe than might have been expected from such an impact. About 20,000 people were at work in the U.S. Department of Defense headquarters, the largest office building in the world. Yet according to casualty reports, only 125 Pentagon employees were killed along with the 64 from the ill-fated airliner.
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More Architecture News High Drama — Los Angeles Times, 2003.0225Lincoln Center Selects Architectural Team — New York Times, 2003.0224 Rain-Soaked Roofs Collapse in D.C. Area — New York Times, 2003.0223 Two Choices Rise from the Ashes of Ground Zero — Boston Globe, 2003.0223 More Than 250 Die as Earthquake Hits China — New York Times, 2003.0223 A New Vision for Ground Zero Beyond Mainstream Modernism — New York Times, 2003.0223 Decision on WTC Site Redevelopment Nears — AP at Architecture Guide, 2003.0222 Sham Plan for New WTC — New York Post, 2003.0221 WTC Front-Runner Disses Rival — New York Daily News, 2003.0221 WTC Decision Nears, with One Plan Drawing Favor — Newsday, 2003.0221 At Least 75 Dead in Rhode Island Nightclub Fire — New York Times, 2003.0221 Support Builds for One Plan for Trade Center Site — New York Times, 2003.0220 21 Die in Stampede of 1,500 at Chicago Nightclub — New York Times, 2003.0218 Snow Causes Roof of Railroad Museum to Partially Cave In — Baltimore Sun, 2003.0218 9/11's Hard Lessons Lead Agency to Urge Tougher Building Code — New York Times, 2003.0215 Panel Recommends Major Changes in NYC Building Code — Boston Globe, 2003.0215 Cincinnati Yields Bumper Crop of Award-Winning Projects — AIArchitect, 2003.0214 PA: We'll Have to Use the Pit — New York Daily News, 2003.0213 Construction To Resume In Shanghai On World’s Tallest Skyscraper — Newsday, 2003.0213 Ground Zero Designers Are Asked for Revisions — New York Times, 2003.0213 Building on the Lessons of History — Asia Times, 2003.0213 Pit at Ground Zero Will Contain Memorial's Foundation — Silicon Valley News, 2003.0212
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