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19 Th Century Art And Architecture
5,152 wordsArchitecture, 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 wordsA 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
1,778 words(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a jamboree of barbershops, pizza kitchens, and flower boutiques begins close to the bike shop, which neighbors the outdated railroad tracks, and ends near the Main Street Galleria.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 wordsAn 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
1,653 words... 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
1,937 words1. 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 wordsIn 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
1,243 wordsShanghai 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
2,050 wordsNowadays, 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
1,889 wordsHeritage 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
1,270 wordsIntroduction 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 wordsHistory 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
2,224 words20 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
1,514 wordsBuilding 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 wordsCollege 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
2,606 wordsGeology 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
2,560 wordsFrank 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
4,319 wordsFrank 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
10,086 wordsThe 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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