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August 11,2010Most of us look at shipping containers and see … er, shipping containers. But not the designers of the traveling Nomadic Museum. Architect Shigeru Ban, of Tokyo, and San Francisco-based Gensler used 152 shipping containers stacked in a checkerboard pattern four containers high to form walls for the three-gallery museum.
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August 11,2010April 30 was the day for the Construction Specifications Institute to post the fourth draft of the MasterFormat on its Web site (www.csinet.org/technic/mfrevision.htm) for comment by the A/E/C industry. CSI, based in Alexandria, Va., says Draft 4 came in response to the outcry over an earlier draft, which was deemed too complicated.
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August 11,2010Unity Temple in Oak Park, Ill., one of Frank Lloyd Wright's most significant public buildings, is teetering on the brink of extinction. An early example of the use of reinforced concrete, the 1909 structure suffers from water infiltration, crumbling concrete and a host of other ills.
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August 11,2010Heated towel racks come at a fraction of the cost of competing products, since they use electricity rather than industrial oils. Available in both wall-mounted and freestanding models, the wall-mounted are offered in both hard- and soft-wired versions. Soft-wired Warmrails come with easy-to-use templates; electricians can install hard-wired racks in the time it takes to mount a wall socket.
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August 11,2010DMJM Design in Washington, D.C., has been awarded the master plan and design of the new University of Dubai in the United Arab Emirates. The 450,000-sf, $163 million campus master plan includes an administration building; College of Business Management, Accounting and Administration; Emirates School of Management and Professional Development; School of General Education; College of Information ...
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August 11,2010No doubt about it. Planning, designing, and building with an eye toward sustainability is more than just a fad. In the last three years, the amount of square footage registered for certification by the Washington, D.C.-based U.S. Green Building Council has grown to more than 139 million square feet, according to the USGBC.
