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SEATTLE PUBLIC LIBRARY - DETAILING THE SKIN The twelve-story, 362,987-square-foot (33,723-square-meter) Seattle Public Library sits on a steep urban site with a 29-foot (8.8-meter) height difference between its boundaries on Fourth and Fifth Avenues.
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Does your project require special equipment to convey structural steel on site and into position? Maybe big trucks with oversize loads, and special cranes. But have you ever commissioned a flatbed ship for placing steel?
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More Building and Construction Accel-E™ S.T.E.P. Wall System Provides Framing, Insulation, and Sheathing in Single, Easily Installed Panels — VantEdge Press Release at ArchitectureWeek, 2007.1017Paulson Admits Longer Housing Correction — 123Jump, 2007.1016 Inflation Fall Dents Dollar — Stuff, 2007.1016 Home Sales, Prices Dip Again in September — San Diego Union-Tribune, 2007.1016 Taking the Long View of Architecture in Athens — Los Angeles Times, 2007.1015 The Sum of Its Parts — Canadian Architect, 2007.1015 Outcry over Supreme Court Building — The Nation, 2007.1015 Housing Starts May Drop to 12-Year Low: U.S. — Bloomberg, 2007.1014 Size Matters: Bigger Is Badder — Hartford Courant, 2007.1014 The Mod(Ular) Squad — The State, 2007.1014 Stepping Outside of the Box — Guardian Unlimited, 2007.1014 Housing, CPI Take Back Seat to Fed Chatter — MarketWatch, 2007.1014 Self-Builders Feel the Strain — Telegraph, 2007.1013 Scraping Down, Building Up — Denver Post, 2007.1013 Steep Sloped Roofs Lasted through Katrina Better Than Low Sloped Roofs — ScienceDaily, 2007.1013 Britain's Foster to Design Dublin's U2 Tower — Reuters, 2007.1012 Saint-Gobain's House of Glass — Forbes, 2007.1012 University of Kansas Hospital Cancer Center — AIArchitect, 2007.1012 Finding Fun in a Funky Town — Sydney Morning Herald, 2007.1011 Home Builders Are Desperate — The Trumpet, 2007.1011 In Cornwall, Restoring a Modern — New York Times, 2007.1010 Downsize Me! Shrinking the McMansion Diet — Architectural Record, 2007.1010 Museum Is Good Urban Design — Helena Independent Record, 2007.1010 Observation Wheel Could Turn Profit in Downtown Miami — Miami Herald, 2007.1010 Shadow Falls on Condo Market — The Oregonian, 2007.1009 MP Calls for Action on Rural Housing — IC Wales, 2007.1009 European Building Materials Industry Stable Despite Weak US Market — Forbes, 2007.1009 Sussex Site Captures Local Design Prize — Ottawa Citizen, 2007.1009 Modern Headquarters in Historic District Raises Some Eyebrows — Cape Cod Times, 2007.1009 Home Builders' Debt Given Junk Ratings — Triangle Business Journal, 2007.1008 Housing Markets Shrug Off Rate Rises — Australian Times, 2007.1003 Home Sales Forecast Index Hits New Low — AOL News, 2007.1003 Break Out of the Box — Affordable Housing Finance, 2007.0709
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