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COMPARING FUKUSHIMA AND CHERNOBYL Our goal with this article is to support an accurate, technically grounded, and broadly comprehensible comparison of the Fukushima and Chernobyl nuclear disasters, to facilitate realistic understanding of these serious accidents by the techncially-savvy ArchitectureWeek A/E/C readership.
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AIA HOUSING AWARDS: SINGLE-FAMILY In the Towerview neighborhood of Racine, Wisconsin, a strikingly modern two-story home stands apart on a lakefront site. Though its architects credit nearby Victorians as inspiration for the vivid colors highlighting its facade, the playful tone, rectilinear massing, and structurally expressive detailing seem to make more recent references — as well they might.
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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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More Architecture News Daily Architecture Headlines — Updated every day at ArchitectureWeek
One Month on, Debris Fields Barely Dented — Japan Times, 2011.0416
AIA Announces 2011 COTE Top Ten Green Projects — AIA Press Release, 2011.0414
Comparing Fukushima and Chernobyl — ArchitectureWeek, 2011.0413
People and Places 2011.0413 — ArchitectureWeek, 2011.0413
Flights Resume at Tsunami-Ravaged Airport — ABC News, 2011.0413
NZ to Spend $US6 Billion Rebuilding Christchurch — Radio Australia News, 2011.0412
Japan's Reconstruction Panel Set Up, Basic Plan to Be Ready in June — Mainichi Daily News, 2011.0412
Neues Museum Wins Mies Van Der Rohe Award — Independent Digital, 2011.0411
Japan Raises Severity of Nuclear Accident to Highest — Reuters, 2011.0411
Texas Wildfires Destroy Homes, Buildings — Reuters, 2011.0410
Homebuilder Pasquinelli Files for Bankruptcy — Chicago Tribune, 2011.0408
Magnitude 7.4 Earthquake Strikes Japan; 4 Killed, 141 Injured — Japan Today, 2011.0407
New York Fed Sells $1.3 Billion of AIG-Related Mortgage Bonds in Auction — Bloomberg, 2011.0406
AIA Housing Awards: Single-Family — ArchitectureWeek, 2011.0406
People and Places 2011.0406 — ArchitectureWeek, 2011.0406
China Takes Artist AI Weiwei into Custody — New York Times, 2011.0404
Detained Chinese Artist's New York Project Will Go On — New York Times, 2011.0404
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
Airport, High School Win Vietnamese Architecture Prize — VietnamNet, 2011.0319
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