Building Design & Construction 08/01/2007 Table of Contents

August 2007

Toronto's Opera House Takes Center Ice
After years of feeling disconnected from downtown Toronto, the Canadian Opera Company built a new home that openly embraces the city's urban vibrancy.

Brick Construction	4 Telltale Signs Your Brick Wall is Failing Building restoration guru K. Nam Shiu identifies and diagnoses four key indicators of an unhealthy brick wall system.
Cultural Facilities	Toronto's Opera House Takes Center Ice After years of feeling disconnected from downtown Toronto, the Canadian Opera Company built a new home that openly embraces the city's urban vibrancy. Creative Finance How the Seattle Art Museum partnered with a bank to finance its new building and bring three new towers to the Emerald City's skyline. An Addition that Doesn't Subtract Rather than try to imitate a historic neighbor, the Building Team behind the addition to San Diego's Museum of Contemporary Art went for contrast. Two Museums, One Story A museum complex in the Southern California desert tells how the building of a dam led to the discovery of a massive collection of ice age fossils. Posh Plexes Make for Boffo B.O. Designers are working with forward-thinking movie theater operators to raise the bar on the movie-going experience.
Departments	Clarifications Samuels joins BD+C editorial board 2010 edition of healthcare design guidelines up for public comment through September People + Firms News Briefs NIST WTC recommendations finally adopted in the model building codes
Editorial	Here's one way you can win the recruitment wars
Industry Data	Process industries booming; other manufacturing stagnant Healthcare constructiongrowth will slow to 10% R.S. Means costs comparisons
Information Technology	Acrobat 3D 8 makes 3D/CAD file-sharing easier
Interior Solutions	11 Tips on Designing Interior Glass Walls
Letters	U.S. Census Bureau HQ looks like a 'giant wicker basket'
New Project Portfolio	Residence hall is New Hampshire's first LEED Gold dormitory New Jersey Sheraton gets complete renovation Science is cool in Huntington Beach Auburn, California, gets a new justice center
On The Drawing Board	New condominiums planned for Las Vegas Southwest Virginia center to display regional art UMass medical school to get a new educational facility New towers will bring more office space to Kuwait City Green mixed-use tower goes up in South Mumbai Mixed-use complex to surround Patriot's Gillette Stadium Residential complex planned for Arlington Shanghai mixed-use complex will help revitalize city Construction under way for UW-Whitewater business building Baltimore hospital to get a new in-patient tower
The Professional's Choice	Architect Sassan Gharai on IceStone Recycled Glass and Concrete Surfacing
Thought Leaders	'International work isn't for everyone, or every firm'

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