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MEZZANINE ADDITION SPANS 175 FEET When the Georgia Institute of Technology in Atlanta needed a new student recreation center, they found the space for it in an unusual way. They converted the 1996 Olympic swimming and diving venue into a multipurpose facility by stretching a new floor across the 175-foot (53-meter) span above the existing pool and spectator seating. St. Louis-based Hastings & Chivetta Architects, Inc. designed the renovation.
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CALATRAVA WAVE IN TENERIFE It was originally intended to be a simple concert hall, but the multifunction building for the city of Santa Cruz, Tenerife, in the Canary Islands, also promises to be a landmark. The distinctive, overhanging "wave" curving out over the white concrete Auditorio de Tenerife is the latest creation of renowned Spanish architect Santiago Calatrava.
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STRUCTURAL ALUMINUM Today the choice of aluminum as a structural material suffers from a malady similar to that which afflicted tomatoes in the eighteenth century: many people fail to consider it out of superstition and ignorance. Whereas Europeans shunned tomatoes for fear that they were poisonous, engineers seem to avoid aluminum for equally unfounded reasons today.
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More Building and Construction Homeownership Program Will Spur Urban Homebuilding — Designare, 2003.0911Confusion Trumps Beauty at Seattle's New City Hall — Opinion at Seattle Post-Intelligencer, 2003.0908 Residential Remodeling Picks Up the Pace in Second Quarter — National Association of Home Builders, 2003.0908 Brains Behind Design of New Soldier Field — Chicago Tribune, 2003.0907 Harvard Housing Complex Lacks the Sharpness of Its Site — Boston Globe, 2003.0907 An Architect Works Quietly to Design New WTC Tower — Newsday, 2003.0902 Telescopic, Customized, Ergonomic “MaxFlex” Worktables — Officework.com, 2003.0831 Northwest Energy Efficiency Alliance to Transform Residential Construction — Con.WEB, 2003.0828 Countryside Goes Modern — This is London, 2003.0828 Gantt Hires Firm to Size Up NCCU Mold Problem — News Observer, 2003.0827 Building a Crisis: Housing Under-Supply in England — Audacity.org, 2003.0827 Community Design and Housing Competition Winner Is Announced — Livable Places press release, 2003.0826 New-Home Sales In July Second-Highest Rate In History — National Association of Home Builders, 2003.0826 How Safe Is Your Floor Cleaner? — Designare, 2003.0825 In New Lambeau, the Inside Wins — Milwaukee Journal-Sentinel, 2003.0824 Spectra-Glo Announces Glow-in-the-Dark Paint for Safety — Spectra-Glo press release, 2003.0820 A House Designed for Subterranean Living — Independent Digital, 2003.0820 Fail-Safe Fluorescent Emergency Lighting — Designare, 2003.0819
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