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"I have decided to make the complete turn." Euphoric over seeing his still under-construction house rotate its planned 180 degrees for the first time, the Italian civil engineer Angelo Invernizzi quickly wrote a colleague that the final version had to go all the way around.
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ENGINEERING A PEI CANTILEVER - DALLAS CITY HALL Innovative architecture often requires equally innovative engineering and technologies for successful realization. An outstanding example of design and engineering interdependence can be seen in the Dallas City Hall, a landmark building completed in 1977, designed with daring vision by one of the world's leading architectural teams, I.M. Pei & Partners.
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Green roofs, whether intensive or extensive, can provide a wealth of benefits on site and beyond. Delivering these benefits successfully requires professional attention to a variety of critical details. — Editor The first common dilemma in the construction of living green roofs, and other landscapes over structure, is that, in conventional building, the execution and completion of site work are often subordinated to the completion of the building.
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More Building and Construction Home Is Where Heart of Doha Is — Gulf Times, 2009.0723a Remedy for Sick Buildings — London Evening Standard, 2009.0722 Silver Spring Library Skybridge Rejected — Greater Greater Washington, 2009.0722 Home Builder Tallies Up Drywall Claims — Wall Street Journal, 2009.0722 O.C. Builder Nears Profitability — O.C. Register, 2009.0722 O.C. Builder Nears Profitability — O.C. Register, 2009.0722 Chinese Drywall Leaving Home Toxic after It's Removed — WINK News, 2009.0721 Michigan Debates Residential Sprinkler Code — Grand Rapids Press, 2009.0721 AIA: U.S. Architecture Billings Fall in June — Denver Business Journal, 2009.0720 A New Enforcer in Buildings, the Energy Inspector — New York Times, 2009.0718 Housing Starts Rise an Unexpected 3.6% — New York Times, 2009.0718 US Home Construction Recovering — Christian Science Monitor, 2009.0717 Housing Starts Increase to Seven-Month High — Bloomberg, 2009.0717 AZ Second in Foreclosures for First Half of 2009 — KTAR, 2009.0716 Home Builders Want Others to Pay Costs — Island Packet, 2009.0716 Rebuilding British Columbia Sports Centre Brings Multiple Project Challenges — Daily Commercial News and Construction Record, 2009.0716 Hellenic Studies Center Takes Root on URI’S Campus — Providence Journal, 2009.0716 Dynamic Architecture, but Will It Fly? — Business 24/7, 2009.0716 The Revolving Villa — ArchitectureWeek, 2009.0715 Insurers Drop Out: Crisis Talks for Home Building — Sydney Morning Herald, 2009.0714 AIA: Nonresidential Construction Slump to Continue through 2010 — AIA Press Release, 2009.0714 Work on LAX Icon Will Be Done by Fall — Contra Costa Times, 2009.0712 Grow Your Own Bridge — BD, 2009.0710 A New Direction for Embassy Architecture? — Los Angeles Times, 2009.0709 Engineering a Pei Cantilever - Dallas City Hall — ArchitectureWeek, 2009.0708 Western Export Insurers Quit Turkish Ilisu Dam — Reuters, 2009.0707 As Unbreakable as ... Glass? — New York Times, 2009.0707 UAE's Al-Futtaim to Decide on Morocco Build in 2010 — Reuters, 2009.0707 Best of Rally in US REIT Bonds Likely Past — Reuters, 2009.0707 France, Unlike U.S., Is Deep into Stimulus Projects — New York Times, 2009.0707
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