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POSTCARD FROM WEST POTOMAC PARK
"Light, temporarily defeated, is stronger than evil triumphant."
—Martin Luther King Jr. — Published 2011.1026
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CRANE COLLAPSE SHIFTS MEMORIAL EVENTS
Around 11 o'clock on the morning of Wednesday, September 7, in Washington, D.C., a 400-foot-tall, 500-ton Liebherr crane collapsed in a thunderstorm wind gust at the National Cathedral. The crane had been working on securing the building after recent earthquake damage, in anticipation of 9/11 memorial observances — slated to include President Obama this Sunday, September 11. — Published 2011.0907
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ENGINEERING GROUND ZERO ON PBS
The PBS series Nova premiered a powerful show on Wednesday, September 7, 2011, about the reconstruction work currently underway at the site of the World Trade Center disaster.
"Engineering Ground Zero" is now available as streaming video on the PBS web site. And it will be rebroadcast by many public television stations across the United States (check local listings). — Published 2011.0907
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CHIPPERFIELD'S ANCHORAGE MUSEUM
In downtown Anchorage, a little farther off the beaten path than his museums and galleries in London and Berlin, David Chipperfield has constructed another architectural gem, exhibiting a clear signature modernism that manages to be at once bold and quiet. — Published 2011.0720
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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 technically savvy ArchitectureWeek A/E/C readership.
Why This Comparison? — Published 2011.0413
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CHERNOBYL BY THE SEA
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. — Published 2011.0323
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BEYOND THREE MILE ISLAND
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. — Published 2011.0316
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EARTHQUAKE AND TSUNAMI IN JAPAN
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 (see above pre-earthquake photo) (2011.0311, 2:46 PM Tokyo local time, 12:46:23 AM EST, 05:46:23 UTC).
— Published 2011.0316
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POSTCARD FROM BERLIN
Dear ArchitectureWeek,
The SOLON factory and headquarters building on the outskirts of Berlin, by local firm Schulte-Frohlinde Architekten, seems to embody a green golden moment for the German startup company specializing in efficient assembly of photovoltaic cells into modular solar panels. — Published 2011.0112
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SALT LAKE CITY PUBLIC LIBRARY
This six-page photo essay explores the dramatic Salt Lake City Public Library by Moshe Safdie, inside and out.
— Published 2010.1215
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