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The new medical clinic and community center in the Pictou Landing First Nation in Nova Scotia recalls a longhouse, the traditional winter lodge of the Mi'kmaq. Sustainably harvested spruce poles, six to eight inches (15 to 20 centimeters) in diameter, are bent and lashed together at the tops. Like a giant wooden model of a whale's ribcage, clad with rows of oversized spruce shingles, the peaked frame is an adaptation of traditional Native bent-wood construction.
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GREEN SKYSCRAPER BY COOK + FOX Expected to be the first LEED Platinum skyscraper, the 945-foot- (288-meter-) tall Bank of America Tower is located at 42nd Street and 6th Avenue in Manhattan, opposite Bryant Park.
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More Building and Construction Global Downturn Dooms Prestige Construction Projects — Spiegel, 2009.0115Pictou Landing Health Center — ArchitectureWeek, 2009.0114 Late 2008 Tumble in Construction Materials Sales Assures Weaker Pricing Ahead — Reed Construction Data, 2009.0113 U.K. Slumps Most Since 1989 as Home Sales Decline — Bloomberg, 2009.0113 Bankruptcy Boom Seen in 2009, No Sector Spared — Reuters, 2009.0113 Anger at Home-Building Muddle — Dispatch (South Africa), 2009.0112 Builders Want Incentives Enhanced — Pittsburgh Tribune-Review, 2009.0111 North Carolina Builders Seek Action on Incentives — Daily Advance, 2009.0110 KB Home Posts $307 Million Loss — Wall Street Journal, 2009.0109 Home Builders Suffer in Grim '08 — Sacramento Bee, 2009.0109 Procurement Predicament? City Outsources Downtown Mall Project — The Hook, 2009.0109 Australia's Falling Exports, Home Building May Prompt Rate Cut — Bloomberg, 2009.0108 University of Michigan Construction Continues, but Few Large-Scale Projects on Horizon — Ann Arbor Business Review, 2009.0108 Political Wrangling Bogs Down Economic Stimulus Package — Los Angeles Times, 2009.0108 When Home Building Fell, so Did Economy — LA Daily News, 2009.0107 Apple's Modern Look Rejected in Georgetown as Store Hits Snag — Bloomberg, 2009.0107 Infrastructure Boom: Potholes Ahead — BusinessWeek, 2009.0106 Innovative Post-Tensioning Work in San Jose — Reed Construction Data, 2009.0105 What Lies Ahead for Building Materials and Products — Buildings.com, 2009.0105 New Standpipe Inspection Rules Take Effect — GlobeSt, 2009.0105 Housing Push for Hispanics Spawns Wave of Foreclosures — Wall Street Journal, 2009.0105 U.S. Construction Spending Falls Less Than Forecast — Bloomberg, 2009.0105 Sales of Low-Energy Homes Stall — Boston Globe, 2009.0104 The Come-Hither Lobby — New York Times, 2009.0102 Remaking the Scene — New York Times, 2009.0101 Historic Platinum — My San Antonio, 2009.0101 French Housing Weakens Further — Daily FX, 2008.1230 London's Victorian Housing Can Give Us a Design for Our Times — This is London, 2008.1230 'Piggyback' Mortgages May Cut Modifications, Fed Says — Bloomberg, 2008.1230 Buyers Market? Home Prices Drop 18% in October. — Axcess News, 2008.1230
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