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Engineering a Pei Cantilever - Dallas City Hall | |
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Two houses in east Australia exhibit powerful simplicity in form, space, and circulation, while each effectively addresses the specifics of its contrasting site, seaside or subdivision. Designed by two different Brisbane firms, each lead by young principals, both of these houses show environmentally conscious responses to the subtropical climate of the southeastern Queensland area, with warm, humid summers and mild winters.
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ONE-WAY AND TWO-WAY CLAY-TILE AND UNIT-MASONRY JOIST SYSTEMS Focusing on structural engineering issues involved in the repair, restoration, or adaptive reuse of older buildings for which drawings no longer exist, this article is the third in a series on antiquated structural systems that can be adapted or reanalyzed for safe reuse. —Editor
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"I have decided to make the complete turn." Euphoric over seeing his still under-construction house rotate its planned 180 degrees for the first time, the Italian civil engineer Angelo Invernizzi quickly wrote a colleague that the final version had to go all the way around.
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ENGINEERING A PEI CANTILEVER - DALLAS CITY HALL Innovative architecture often requires equally innovative engineering and technologies for successful realization. An outstanding example of design and engineering interdependence can be seen in the Dallas City Hall, a landmark building completed in 1977, designed with daring vision by one of the world's leading architectural teams, I.M. Pei & Partners.
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More Building and Construction Construction Market in Latvia – Light at the End of the Tunnel — Baltic Times, 2009.0903New Terminal Is Unveiled at NIagara Falls Airport — Buffalo News, 2009.0903 Two Houses in East Australia — ArchitectureWeek, 2009.0902 An American Perspective: Skyscraper Architecture Goes Modular in the UK — BDC, 2009.0902 Small AEC Firms Getting Clobbered by the Big Guys — BDC, 2009.0902 One Man's Trash ... — New York Times, 2009.0902 Pending Home Sales Shake Off Recession — Barron's, 2009.0902 Big Plans for Grand Paris — France Today, 2009.0901 Home Building Approvals Top Estimates — The Australian, 2009.0901 July Construction Spending Slips 0.2 Percent — Associated Press, 2009.0901 Factories' Rebound, Future Home Sales Best in Two Years — Investors, 2009.0901 NTU Helps to Strengthen Buildings in China's Earthquake-Prone Areas — Channel News Asia, 2009.0828 Despite Slump, Hong Kong Real Estate Remains Strong — New York Times, 2009.0828 Builder Toll Hikes Some Prices as Market Improves — CNN, 2009.0827 Home Construction Scams — CBS6, 2009.0827 China Pavilion: Looking Toward the Future — Alibaba, 2009.0827 One-Way and Two-Way Clay-Tile and Unit-Masonry Joist Systems — ArchitectureWeek, 2009.0826 CCTV Tower under Fire Once Again — Xinhua, 2009.0826 In Athens, Loft-Style Living — New York Times, 2009.0826 Southeast Polk Opens New High School — Des Moines Register, 2009.0825 CRH 1H Net Profit -83%, Pace of Decline Seen Slowing — Wall Street Journal, 2009.0825 Homebuilders Up as Index Shows Higher Home Prices — Forbes, 2009.0825 World's Tallest Wooden Building Planned for Norway — Inhabitat (blog), 2009.0824 Construction Commodity Prices Fall, but Don't Expect a Surge in Projects — Modern Health Care, 2009.0824 NVR Upgraded by Moody's; First Builder Since 2006 — Bloomberg, 2009.0821 After Merger, Firm Becomes 'Homebuilding's 800-Pound Gorilla' — Detroit Free Press, 2009.0819 U.S. Architecture Billings Index Up in July-AIA — AIA Press Release, 2009.0819 Shipping Containers Find Use as Building Material — Journal of Commerce, 2009.0819 Single-Family Home Building Rises for 5th Month — Associated Press, 2009.0818 Surprise Dip in US Home Building — BBC News, 2009.0818
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