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19 Th Century Art And Architecture
5,152 words
Architecture, the practice of building design and
its resulting products; customary usage refers
only to those designs and structures that are
culturally significant. Architecture is to
building as literature is to the printed word.
Vitruvius, a 1 st-century BC Roman, wrote
encyclopedically about architecture, and the
English poet Sir Henry Wotton was quoting him in
his charmingly phrased dictum: "Well building hath
three conditions: Commodities, Firmenes, and
Delight. " More prosaically, one wo...
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Occupational Safety And Health Building Codes
1,141 words
A safe place for all Americans to work in! Few
would argue with this concept that congress had in
mind when it passed the Occupational Safety and
Health Act of 1970. The law applies equally to the
rich and poor, the radicals, the liberals, and the
conservatives; it is for people of all races, and
it knows no religious boundaries. And yet, in the
early years after an enactment of a law which
makes it illegal to work in an unsafe place, a
general feeling of fear invaded industry. What
caused this ...
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Barbershops Pizza Kitchens Facing Klondike Kates Street
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(1) The vast array of flashy shops and trendy
restaurants, preceding the Newark Shopping Center,
make up the second definite commercial landscape
of East Main Street. The second landscape which
includes a jamboree of barbershops, pizza
kitchens, and flower boutiques begins close to the
bike shop, which neighbors the outdated railroad
tracks, and ends near the Main Street Galleria.
This shopping area provides ease and sufficiency
to the town of Newark by catering to every
individuals needs. The t...
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Ozone Depletion Life Cycle
1,383 words
"A buildings environmental impact extends from
global factors, such as ozone depletion, to the
quality of the environment inside the property.
These impacts arise from decisions made at all
stages of the buildings life, including materials
manufacture, site selection, design, construction,
occupation and ultimately demolition. " Source:
Greener Buildings, Environmental Impact of
Property - Stuart Johnson. A Report On
Environmental Life Cycle Analysis (L. C. A. )
Introduction The world is becomin...
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Number Of Buildings Million Population Earthquake
785 words
An earthquake struck on the 17 th January at 5: 46
am in the south-central part of Japan. This
earthquake was 7. 2 on the richter scale and
caused mass destruction. It was called The Great
Hanshin Earthquake. Its focus was only 30 km below
ground. Shock waves travelled to the surface and
splintered buildings, roads and mains supplies of
gas water and electricity. The Japanese were in a
hard to live state. This also hit Osaka and Kyoto.
Kobe has a 1. 5 million population its self. All
children ex...
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5 Th Century North And South
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... regions of this early temple are significant.
With 6 columns across the front and back and 16 on
each side (counting the corner columns twice), the
temple has a ratio of length to width of nearly
three to one. As time passed, Greek architects
felt these proportions were too elongated. They
progressively reduced the temples length relative
to its width, until by the mid- 5 th century the
ratio was slightly more than two to one. The
Parthenon in Athens (447 - 432 BC), for example,
has 17 colum...
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Earthquake Loads Resistant Design Of Buildings
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1. 1 2. Summary 2 3. Earthquake Design - A
Conceptual Review 2 4. Earthquake Resisting
Performance Expectations 3 5. Key Material
Parameters for Effective Earthquake Resistant
Design 3 6. Earthquake Design Level Ground Motion
4 6. 1. Elastic Response Spectra 4 6. 2. Relative
Seismicity 5 6. 3. Soil amplification 6 7.
Derivation of Ductile Design Response Spectra 7 8.
Analysis and Earthquake Resistant Design
Principles 8 8. 1. The Basic Principles of
Earthquake Resistant Design 8 8. 2. Controls o...
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Hall Of Fame East Side
942 words
In 1992, the homes that form Astor Row were placed
on New York City's list of historical landmarks in
an effort to save the structures from
deterioration. At the same time, New York City
launched a publicly funded revitalization program
for the homes' intricately constructed porches.
More than half of the homes, which were built on
land owned by William Astor in the late 1800 's,
have been sold and renovated. A shell on Astor Row
recently sold for $ 220, 000, and renovated homes
on this street a...
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November 17 2006 Part Of China
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Shanghai Shanghai is the biggest Chinese city with
more than 13 million inhabitants. It is one of the
biggest cities in the world. Shanghai is the
biggest Chinese commercial and industrial centre.
It is also one of financial centers of the
country. If you ask the Chinese citizen to tell
the name of the most developed Chinese city, he
will definitely speak about Shanghai or
Shenchzhen. These two cities became the symbols of
modernized China. [narration] Nowadays Shanghai
reminds us Hong Kong. The...
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Taking Place American Cities
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Nowadays, it is quite impossible to be absolutely
sure as what was the initial cause of Chicago
Great Fire of 1871. However, it is most probably
that this cause had accidental properties. Most
historians agree that the fire was started in
Patrick Olearys barn, when one of his cows kicked
over a lantern. This seemingly a banal accident is
associated with one of the worst artificially
created disasters in the history of U. S. During
the course of fire, three hundred people lost
their life and hund...
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Customs House Pretty Good
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Heritage Assignment, Topic: Customs House,
Circular Quay (Sydney, Australia) Circular Quays
Customs House that is occupied at Sydney,
Australia is very well known for its ancient
heritage and significance in the whole state
history. A former Customs House has been renovated
and rebuild and is currently a very nice beauty of
the region. In order to identify the heritage
significance of the House we may take a closer
look into the historical p revalue of the sight.
It used to be a formal Customs H...
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U S Department Americans With Disabilities Act
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Introduction Under Americans with Disabilities Act
(ADA) of 1990, any attempt to limit functional
ability of disabled people, on the part of public
or commercial institutions, constitutes the
impairment of their civil rights and can result in
legal consequences. This Act obligates U. S.
Architectural and Transportation Barriers
Compliance Board to make necessary provisions, so
that Minimum Guidelines and Requirements for
Accessible Design (ADAAG) could be taken into
consideration at all times by...
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Hall Of Fame African American
1,647 words
History of Harlem's Architecture There are a lot
of various controversial statements about Harlem,
this community has always been considered somewhat
dangerous by the white inhabitants of New York,
who were unwilling even to walk through it
sometimes. However, the history of Harlem is
rather interesting, there were a lot of events,
which influenced the lifestyles of Harlem's
inhabitants and also had a profound impact on the
countrys history as a whole. The history of
Harlem's architecture is clo...
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Rio De Janeiro World War Ii
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20 Century Architectural and Urban Theories Th
definition of what constitutes a city chang's from
tim to tim and plac to plac, but it is most usual
to x plain th trm as a matter of dmo graphics. Th
United Nations has rcommndd that countries read
all plac's with mor than 20, 000 inhabitants
living clos together as urban; but, in fact,
nations compile the statistics on th basis of many
different standards. Th United Stats, for instant,
uss urban plac to man any locality whr more than
2, 500 people...
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Takes Advantage Square Feet
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Building Cost Comparison: Historical Tax Credit
vs. New Construction For the construction
companies there is often an issue raised of
whether or not to start a new construction or to
renovate some historically existing building. This
issue has many variables that need to be figured
out in order for the correct solution to be found.
There usually is a special team of researchers who
analyse the situation before the project and than
give their critical opinion as of what to do more
convenient. Pha...
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Stephen F Austin Dorm Halls Buildings
517 words
College Campuses College Campuses I have been to
many college campuses and seen how they are set
up. They all are organized in the same fashion
with the exception of few. College campuses are
divided into different buildings, and the
buildings are classified by the subject matter
covered in each building. Stephen F. Austin State
University is set up this way and its campus is an
example of these facts. Each campus has at least
one administration building if not more. The
administration building ...
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San Andreas Fault Surface Of The Earth
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Geology is the study of the earths landmasses. The
earth is constantly changing. Often changes are to
slow to be able to see them in a human lifetime.
Forces cause different things to happen on the
surface of the earth (Such as Mountains growing
and eroding). Scientists believe that the earth
was formed by very dense elements such as iron and
nickel which are in the core of the earth. The
earths crust covers the mantle. The crust is made
up of over two thousand different compounds called
mineral...
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University Of Wisconsin One Of The Greatest
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Frank Lloyd Wright The Pioneer of creating
Greatness Through Simplicity These ideas proposed
by Wright represent a half century of ingenuity
and unrivaled creativity. Wright was
unquestionably a architectural genius and was
years ahead of his time. The biggest obstacle
which held Wright back throughout his career was
the lack of technogaly that was present during his
time. As a architect, Wright accomplished more
that any other in history, with the possible
exception of DaVincci or Michangelo. H...
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Frank Lloyd Wright Aunts Nell And Jane
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Frank Lloyd Wright: Innovator in American
Architecture having a good start, not only do I
fully intend to be the greatest architect who has
yet lived, but fully intend to be the greatest
architect who will ever live. Yes, I intend to be
the greatest architect of all time. Frank Lloyd
Wright 1867 - 1959 It appears that from the very
beginning, Frank Lloyd Wright was destined by fate
or determination to be one of the most celebrated
architects of the twentieth century. Not only did
Wright possess ...
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Reinforced Concrete Strike Slip
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The January 17, 1995 Kobe Earthquake An EQE
Summary Report, April 1995 Executive Summary exec
summ / ex 1 - 600. gifexecsumm / ex 1 - 600. gif
On the first anniversary of the moment magnitude
(MW) 6. 7 1994 Northridge Earthquake, Kobe, Japan
was struck by an MW 6. 9 earthquake. Both
earthquakes struck in the pre-dawn hours, both
ruptured beneath densely populated areas, and both
caused horrible damage. Yet in Kobe there were
many more deaths, financial losses dwarfed those
in Northridge, and the...
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