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The 70,000-square-foot (6,500-square-meter) building for the Swedish Embassy in Washington, D.C., is set on a narrow peninsula at the confluence of Rock Creek and the Potomac River. Surrounded by water on three sides, the peninsula faces south and commands spectacular views up and down the Potomac. The prominent site called for an emblematic building through which the essence of Swedish culture, technology, design sensibility, and governance would be expressed.
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BEIJING BIRD'S NEST - ENGINEERING Part One of this two-part series on Beijing National Stadium looked at the project from an architecture perspective.
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BEIJING BIRD'S NEST - ARCHITECTURE This is the first part of a two-part series about Beijing National Stadium. Part one looks at the stadium from the architects' perspective, part two from the engineers'. In the weeks and months leading up to the 2008 Summer Olympic Games in Beijing, the Chinese government faced a range of complications, from polluted skies to Tibet protests.
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Public School 42 in Arverne, Queens, a five-story prewar brick edifice, had a small library in a converted fourth-floor classroom. Physically and visually isolated from the core of the elementary school's activities, the library was relocated to the ground floor, where it replaced one of two gymnasiums.
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More Building and Construction City Hall Full of Dreamers — Calgary Herald, 2008.0916State Won't Make Pre-'88 High Rises Add Fire Safety Systems within 4 Years — Star-Ledger, 2008.0915 The Architects’ Touch: The Stories Behind Five Architect-Designed Home Projects — Downtown Journal, 2008.0915 Code Change Would Address Bad Design — West Seattle Herald, 2008.0915 Home Prices Near Replacement Cost — Asia One, 2008.0915 New Home Building Falls to Year Low — News.com.au, 2008.0915 New Home Sales Drop by More Than Half — Central Valley Business Times, 2008.0915 Reflections: New Orleans and China — New York Times, 2008.0914 China Housing Following U.S. Path in Some Ways — San Francisco Chronicle, 2008.0914 Modern Design Takes Form as a Farmhouse — Chicago Tribune, 2008.0914 Design Your Own Affordable Home — Stuff, 2008.0914 Container for Life — World Architecture News, 2008.0914 A Home in Idaho Where Water Is the Premium — New York Times, 2008.0912 The Next Little Thing? — New York Times, 2008.0911 Bamboo Shelter Offers Natural Disaster Relief — Asahi, 2008.0910 Palo Alto Housing Plan Has Neighbors Nervous — San Jose Mercury News, 2008.0909 Palo Alto Housing Plan Has Neighbors Nervous — San Jose Mercury News, 2008.0909 Canadian Housing Starts Rise in August — Canadian Press, 2008.0909 U.S. Pending Home Sales Fall, Canadian Housing Starts Rise — CEP, 2008.0909 Wall Street Retreats after Home Data — Associated Press, 2008.0909 Pending Home Resales Decline More Than Forecast — Bloomberg, 2008.0909 Home Mortgage Rate Cut Not Enough to Revive US Housing — Guardian Unlimited, 2008.0909 Drop in Asia after Takeover of Fannie, Freddie — Reuters, 2008.0908 Government Is Now ‘Nation’S Mortgage Lender’ — MSNBC, 2008.0908 Risky Mortgages Threaten to Keep Housing Market Down — Detroit Free Press, 2008.0907 On June 30, 2009, Buy an Apartment — New York Magazine, 2008.0907 Construction Site Theft Builds — Chicago Tribune, 2008.0907 Contractors Irked by Changes in Legal Language — Atlanta Business Chronicle, 2008.0905 China Cites Construction in Deaths — Wall Street Journal, 2008.0905
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