ArchitectureWeek - Puzzler Question #541

Quiz . 30 November 2011


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Architecture Puzzler #541

If you combine two sound sources, each at 50 decibels (dB) what will be the resultant dB level? If you double the distance to a sound source, you reduce the dB by how much?

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Architecture Puzzler #540

Based on Frederick Law Olmsted's ideas and organized by Daniel Burnham, Chicago's Columbian Exposition of 1893 featured work by R.M. Hunt, McKim, Mead & White, and Louis Sullivan: a) Who designed the Women's Pavilion? and b) Which is the only surviving building?

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The Pritzker Pavilion bandshell by Frank Gehry, in Millennium Park, Chicago, Illinois.
Photo: Rob Young

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