Archive | August, 2008
GREAT PUBLIC MARKETS
The activity of buying and selling food has shaped our cities and towns for centuries, since an urban population by nature depends on others for agricultural production. At the heart of this activity stands the public market the buildings and spaces in which vegetables, meat, and other commodities intended for human consumption are sold by diverse persons from numerous spaces or stalls, all under a common authority.
Continue reading...EERO AND ONWARD
27. August 2008
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On a December day of 1955, fresh over from Paris, I walked into the small Eero Saarinen office in Bloomfield Hills, Michigan, with a beatup box of eightbytens of my BeauxArts graduation work. "Can I see Mr. Saarinen I'm looking for a job." He did see me, and having reviewed my prints, asked whether I could start that very afternoon for 2.75 an hour pay. I did.
Continue reading...GETTING GREEN PRODUCTS RIGHT
27. August 2008
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Green project requirements can be found just about anywhere in the contract documents. This is also true for green building product requirements that are an important part of any green building project. Just like green project requirements, green building product requirements can be included in the contract documents either explicitly or implicitly.
Continue reading...DESERT MUSEUMS IN PLATINUM
27. August 2008
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Another building type shattered the dualglazed, lowe glass ceiling in April 2008 when the U.S. Green Building Council first awarded LEED Platinum certification to a museum complex.
Continue reading...MAKING THE WATER CUBE
27. August 2008
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The Beijing National Aquatics Center, often referred to as the "Water Cube," was built for the 2008 Olympic Games. The winning entry in an international design competition was submitted by the China State Construction and Engineering Corporation CSCEC with Arup and PTW Architects.
Continue reading...ENGINEERING CCTV
27. August 2008
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To support the rapid expansion of China Central Television CCTV, an international design competition was launched in 2002 for a centralized headquarters building in Beijing. Winning the commission was Rem Koolhaas Office for Metropolitan Architecture, OMA, teamed with engineering firm Arup and the East China Architecture and Design Institute as both architect and engineer of record. Koolhaas imagined a building whose three dimensional form brings CCTV's staff and functions into a "continuous tube." This is part of the story of the engineering challenge. Editor
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27. August 2008
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