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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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JDS Architects in Oslo, Norway — Holder Mathias Architects in Bushey, England, United Kingdom — Rios Clementi Hale Studios in Los Angeles, California — tvsdesign with Vitetta and Kelly/ Maiello in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania — Migdal Arquitectos in Mexico City, Mexico...
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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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More Architecture News Daily Architecture Headlines — Updated every day at ArchitectureWeek
Japan Will Overcome Crisis - IAEA — BBC, 2011.0321
Earthquake and Tsunami in Japan — ArchitectureWeek, 2011.0316
Triple Three Mile Island — ArchitectureWeek, 2011.0316
People and Places 2011.0316 — ArchitectureWeek, 2011.0316
Radiation Fears after Japan Blast — BBC, 2011.0315
9.0 Japan Earthquake Shifted Earth on Its Axis — Los Angeles Times, 2011.0313
Radiation Leaks Said to Recede after Blast at Japan Nuclear Plant — New York Times, 2011.0313
Flooding Rivers Soak Parts of Northern New Jersey — New York Times, 2011.0312
Hundreds Killed in Tsunami after 8.9 Japan Quake — Associated Press, 2011.0311
Pressure at Damaged Japanese Nuclear Reactor Rising with Fears — ABC, 2011.0311
Japan Earthquake, Tsunami Kill Hundreds, Cause Crippling Damage — Los Angeles Times, 2011.0311
Small Animal Hospital in Glasgow Wins Civic Trust Award — WIDN, 2011.0308
Greenbelt Homes Scheme in Bristol Is Rejected — BBC, 2011.0308
People and Places 2011.0302 — ArchitectureWeek, 2011.0302
Best New Architecture — New Orleans Magazine, 2011.0301
Arkansas Quake Is Its Most Powerful in 35 Years — New York Times, 2011.0301
Union to Help Fund Riverside Rehab — Minneapolis Star-Tribune, 2011.0223
National AIA Awards — ArchitectureWeek, 2011.0223
Coalition for Adequate School Housing Announces Design Awards — San Francisco Chronicle, 2011.0223
New Zealand Quake Kills at Least 65 — Reuters, 2011.0222
Scores Killed in New Zealand Earthquake — New York Times, 2011.0222
New Zealand Earthquake Leaves 65 Dead — BBC, 2011.0222
Quake in New Zealand Kills at Least 65 — San Francisco Chronicle, 2011.0221
Estonia Children's Home Fire Kills 10 — BBC, 2011.0220
Scottish Awards Shortlist Announced — BD (Registration required), 2011.0217
The Fifth-Annual Smart Enviroments Awards — Metropolis, 2011.0214
Wall Collapses at South Side's S&S Candy, Cigar Co. — WPXI, 2011.0214
Chicago Neighborhod Development Awards Recognize Ten — Chicago Tribune, 2011.0209
People and Places 2011.0209 — ArchitectureWeek, 2011.0209
Architecture Contest: Design a Floating Stage for Marine Stadium — Miami Herald, 2011.0209
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