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BUILDING COMMUNITY WITH STRAW BALES Tons of straw are produced each year as a by-product of grain production. Modern wheat farmers burn straw, but for thousands of years straw and other grasses have been valued as a building material around the world, whether thatched into roofs, woven into walls, or mixed with mud to strengthen bricks and stucco.
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SYSTEMATIC CENTRE POMPIDOU The "high tech" style in architecture is easily identified by its imagery — revealed structure, exposed ducts, and machine-precision aesthetics. These modes of exposing hardware and refining the details of connections have made other new exploration necessary. As long as ducts and diagonal bracing were covered over by smooth finish materials or buried in basements and floor-ceiling layers, architects were primarily concerned with their physical requirements for space.
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More Building and Construction New Designs for Scottish Parliament — Scotsman Online, 2003.1229A Stunner of a Museum Gives Inspiration — New York Times, 2003.1228 Dangerous Buildings, Lax Rules: Why Bam Death Toll Was So High — Guardian Unlimited, 2003.1227 Simi Home Gives 'Clean Living' a New Meaning — Los Angeles Times, 2003.1226 Buildings Evoking Stalin Era Are All the Rage in Moscow — Washington Post, 2003.1224 Building Begins on Olympic Venues — China Daily, 2003.1224 Case Not True to Times in Dorm Plan — The Plain Dealer, 2003.1224 New 'Leaky Homes' Standards not Mandatory — New Zealand Herald, 2003.1223 Condo Market Strong, But Weakness Persists For Apartments — National Association of Home Builders, 2003.1219 Surplus History From Ground Zero Rusts in a Hangar — New York Times, 2003.1219 Big Plans for a New Brooklyn — Newsday, 2003.1218 All Systems Go for Convention Centre — The Province, 2003.1217 Housing Starts Hit 19-Year High In November — National Association of Home Builders, 2003.1216 Going? Going. Gone. — Chicago Tribune, 2003.1215 Piano Strikes the Right Chord for London — Financial Times, 2003.1215 New Bank Showcases 'Transitional' Architectural Look — Advocate Messenger, 2003.1215 It's Enough to Make an Architect Walk the Planks — Sydney Morning Herald, 2003.1214 Residential Remodeling Strengthens In Third Quarter — National Association of Home Builders, 2003.1211 The Standard Organic 22 Chair — Office-work.com, 2003.1211 Mount Vernon Grants Licensing Rights to Duron Paints — Duron Paints press release, 2003.0930
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