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AIA HOUSING AWARDS: MULTIFAMILY The condominium building at 1111 East Pike Street in Seattle offers a lively contribution to an urban environment. Located in a dense, walkable, transit-served neighborhood that was formerly Seattle's "auto row," the six-story building features panelized siding in four colors inspired by classic cars of the 1950s. With condo owners given a choice of color for the unit exteriors, those four colors combine to form a variegated patchwork.
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The best data available clearly suggest that the emissions of the radioactive isotopes iodine-131 and cesium-137 from the compound disaster at the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power station in 2011 are now comparable to the total emissions of those isotopes from the Chernobyl accident in 1986. These scientific estimates have been published by the national weather agency of Austria, based on detailed weather modeling since the start of the Fukushima accident 14 days ago.
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EARTHQUAKE AND TSUNAMI AFTERMATH A huge earthquake of magnitude 9.0 and devastating tsunami hit Japan on Friday afternoon, March 11, 2011, with impacts centering in the vicinity of Sendai. NHK reported in Japan that as of 9pm on Monday, March 28, 2011, the death total from the earthquake and tsunami had risen to 11,004, with 17,339 listed as missing.
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More Architecture News Daily Architecture Headlines — Updated every day at ArchitectureWeek
Queensland School Wins Architectural Award — Morning Bulletin, 2011.0402
Star Architect’S Civic Center Design Divides California City — New York Times, 2011.0401
AIA Housing Awards: Multifamily — ArchitectureWeek, 2011.0330
Christchurch Will Be 'World's Most Quake-Safe City' — New Zealand Herald, 2011.0329
Jeddah’S Kingdom Tower, World’S Tallest Building Given the Go Ahead — Singularity Hub, 2011.0329
U.S. Housing Prices Fell Again in January — New York Times, 2011.0329
Critic's Notebook: Pritzker Prize Jury Keeps It Minimalist with Eduardo Souto de Moura — Los Angeles Times, 2011.0329
Architect from Portugal Wins Pritzker — New York Times, 2011.0328
Souto de Moura Wins 2011 Pritzker Architecture Prize — New York Times, 2011.0328
Japan Encourages a Wider Evacuation from Reactor Area — New York Times, 2011.0326
Bond Woes Hinder WTC Projects — Wall Street Journal, 2011.0325
Tokyo Estimates Disaster Costs of Almost $200 Billion — Wall Street Journal, 2011.0324
Six Finalists Unveiles for Mies Van Der Rohe Award 2011 — Archiseek, 2011.0323
Chernobyl by the Sea — ArchitectureWeek, 2011.0323
Earthquake and Tsunami Aftermath — ArchitectureWeek, 2011.0323
People and Places 2011.0323 — ArchitectureWeek, 2011.0323
Japan Will Overcome Crisis - IAEA — BBC, 2011.0321
Airport, High School Win Vietnamese Architecture Prize — VietnamNet, 2011.0319
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
Japan Earthquake, Tsunami Kill Hundreds, Cause Crippling Damage — Los Angeles Times, 2011.0311
Pressure at Damaged Japanese Nuclear Reactor Rising with Fears — ABC, 2011.0311
Hundreds Killed in Tsunami after 8.9 Japan Quake — Associated Press, 2011.0311
Small Animal Hospital in Glasgow Wins Civic Trust Award — WIDN, 2011.0308
Greenbelt Homes Scheme in Bristol Is Rejected — BBC, 2011.0308
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