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Greek authorities have shut the country’s biggest sports stadium amid concerns over the stability of its steel dome, an architectural landmark built for the 2004 Athens Olympic Games. The 70,000-seat Olympic Stadium hosts major sporting events throughout the year, including the UEFA Champions league as well as sold-out concerts, most recently Guns N’ Roses in the summer. Stadium officials said ...
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Sep. 26—MANATEE COUNTY — The planned ground-level passenger terminal at Sarasota Bradenton International Airport is no longer just a concept. The 75,300-square-foot ground boarding facility, which will eventually have five gates, a four-lane security checkpoint, nursing rooms, a pet relief area and restrooms, now has a roof and a concrete floor, as well as underground utilities. Also planned ...
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Tucked alongside a large dorm building on the fringes of Woodbury University's campus in Burbank is a small but very eye-catching house. The 425-square-foot home is contained by a gently curving concrete form equipped with a generous porch and a dramatic sloping roof. Slender, carefully staggered floor-to-ceiling windows gently illuminate the interior. It's a nice piece of architecture. What ...
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Architects don't need AI," declared Britain's most famous architect Norman Foster in May. Three months later, his firm Foster + Partners gave a pithy quote to The Guardian about the future of AI in architecture. "Imagine a facade that could passively deform, creating louvres or overhangs to shade different parts of a building according to the temperature," they said. Just imagine it. The ...
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In a city of unremarkable boxes, the house at 606 Transylvania Ave. stands out as gloriously off-kilter, almost triangular with its roof slanted like a skateboard ramp — as playful as its monster-movie address. It dates to 1954, when a string of rock-star architects from N.C. State University turned Raleigh into their modernist playground, creating houses that were both simple and wildly ...
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TAFEGHAGHTE, Morocco (AP) — The toll of the massive earthquake that devastated Morocco could be seen Monday in dozens of remote villages such as Tafeghaghte, where more than half of the 160 inhabitants are thought to have died. With most of the community flattened, survivors worked to clear debris, recover the dead and steer the living away from buildings teetering on the edge of collapse from ...
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MOULAY BRAHIM, Morocco (AP) — The ground shook with a force few had ever felt, thundering through the remote Moroccan village in the dark of night. When the earthquake was over late Friday, the town carved into the Atlas Mountains lay in devastation, with possibly dozens dead, scores of homes crumpled and walls reduced to rubble. Soon crews were listening for desperate sounds of life within ...
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The following information was released by the National Institute of Building Sciences: The National Institute of Building Sciences (NIBS) today recognized building industry leaders and scholarship recipients, during an awards ceremony at Building Innovation 2023. BI2023 is one of the premiere meetings for all who impact the built environment to find solutions to greater challenges. "NIBS ...
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Former Chicago Dept. of Transportation Commissioner Gia Biagi starts a new role in charge of planning and urban design efforts at the renown Chicago architecture firm Studio Gang.Pat Nabong/Sun-Times While the city's top transportation post remains vacant, the department's respected former commissioner has landed a leadership post at the award-winning Chicago architecture firm Studio Gang.Gia ...
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