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HAITI EARTHQUAKE — LOOKING FOR LESSONS Is the lesson of the January 2010 Haiti earthquake simply about poverty? Poverty and a lack of building regulation seem to be the main culprits identified in most media coverage to date. But ArchitectureWeek thinks there's more to the quake than that. — Editor
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Eden Bio can be difficult to find. One might think it would be hard to conceal almost 100 new public housing units in this part of Paris's 20th arrondissement, but local architect Édouard François has managed to do so, inserting rows of low-rise apartments, duplexes, and small houses into the middle of a city block while presenting a minimal, modest face to the street on three sides.
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WROUGHT AND CAST IRON STRUCTURES 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 seventh in a series about antiquated structural systems that can be adapted or reanalyzed for safe reuse. — Editor
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More Building and Construction Haiti Earthquake - Looking for Lessons — ArchitectureWeek, 2010.0407Developers See Possibility (and Value) in Old Steel — New York Times, 2010.0407 A Glass Act — Cooperator, 2010.0403 Rebuilding in Haiti — New York Times, 2010.0402 Making Garden Sheds More Substantial — Star-Telegram, 2010.0401 Construction Spending at Lowest Point Since 2002 — Associated Press, 2010.0401 Clearwater Voters Approved Building Main Library, Not a City Hall — St. Petersburg Times, 2010.0331 Contractors: New Montana Building Code May Be Costly — Business Week, 2010.0330 Shake, Rattle, Seattle — New York Times, 2010.0328 In Long Island, Gatsby Would Feel Right at Home — New York Times, 2010.0324 Living Against the Grain in the Czech Republic — New York Times, 2010.0318 State Reups with SOM for Moynihan Station Design — New York Observer, 2010.0318 Haiti Reveals Ambitious $11.5 Bln Reconstruction Plan — Associated Foreign Press, 2010.0317 Engineering for Disaster — ThomasNet, 2010.0316 MSU Museum Breaks Ground — Detroit Free Press, 2010.0316 The Age of Concrete — New York Times, 2010.0313 After Years of Controversy, Ceremonial Shovels Come Out — New York Times, 2010.0312 Concept Waterscraper Brings Monumental Architecture into the Open Sea — Popular Science, 2010.0311 Protests Mar Groundbreaking for NJ Nets' NYC Arena — Associated Press, 2010.0311 Developer May Be Bringing in Top Architects to Work on Yards — Brooklyn Paper, 2010.0310 Remodeling Activity Is on the Rise, Architects Say — Wall Street Journal, 2010.0309 Prefab Homes Turn Custom — Buffalo News, 2010.0308 Building Safer, but Cheaply, in Quake Zones — New York Times, 2010.0308 Chile Public Works Min:Quake Infrastructure Repair to Cost $1.2B — Wall Street Journal, 2010.0308 Burj Khalifa's Global Cousins Rise, Revamp, Then Disappear — Providence Journal, 2010.0307 Artsy Area, Artsy Queen West Condo — National Post, 2010.0305 The Beauty of Public RFPs….And of Course the Ugly — Constructonomics, 2010.0303 After Quake, Focus Turns to Reconstruction — Wall Street Journal, 2010.0303 Lessons from Chile: Better Building Codes Work, so Why Don't We Have Them? — Fast Company, 2010.0302 Rebuilding Haiti — Wisconsin Builder, 2010.0301
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