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EARTHQUAKE AND TSUNAMI IN JAPAN As the world knows, a huge earthquake of magnitude 8.9 or 9.0 and devastating tsunami hit Japan on Friday afternoon, with impacts centering in the vicinity of Sendai. Preliminary estimates of death toll are surpassing 10,000. Thousands of deaths are confirmed so far across Japan, and a larger number of people are missing.
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A major compound nuclear accident has accompanied the natural disaster in Japan, with the engineering and public health situation still unfolding. Partial reactor core meltdowns and significant explosions have now occurred at three struggling nuclear reactors at the Fukushima Daiichi power plant in Japan, north of Tokyo — including at least one reactor using a plutonium fuel mixture — and spent fuel storage pools at three other reactors have serious cooling problems.
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On a corner site in Manhattan, within the Greenwich Village Historic District, stands a new 11-story apartment building wrapped in ribbons of glass. The faceted, undulating facade creates a lively contemporary foil to the neighboring masonry structures while reflecting their facades and the greenery of Jackson Square Park. Designed by Kohn Pedersen Fox Associates, this building is one of 27 projects honored by the American Institute of Architects in its AIA Institute Honor Awards for 2011.
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The house on Bert Hodus and Donna Brogan's farm takes design cues from a farm icon. With its south facade "warped" by design, the couple's new home evokes the graceful sag of many aging 19th- and 20th-century American barns. The Blair, Wisconsin, house is wrapped in rainscreen siding of locally harvested, rough-sawn white oak, evocative of the clients' own turn-of-the-20th-century red barn nearby. And the window and door openings are few and large.
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