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October 29, 2010An eight-floor modern glass building, housing a shopping centre, will open next to the historic St Paul's Cathedral later. The £500m One New Change will have 60 stores and restaurants spread over three floors and office space. Developers said the building was "designed in sympathy with its rich architectural surroundings."
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October 29, 2010PPG Industries, Pittsburgh, will supply Starphire ultra-clear, low-iron glass for One World Trade Center in New York. The glass will be used for the podium wall system on Tower One, currently under construction at the new World Trade Center complex in lower Manhattan.Also known as Freedom Tower, One World Trade Center will reach 102 stories and 1,776 feet upon completion in 2013, making...
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October 7, 2010When the U.S. Dept. of Energy’s National Renewable Energy Laboratory in Golden [Colo.]released its 506-page RFP for a non-negotiable LEED-Platinum-certified office building, it wasn’t clear how something jammed full of sustainable elements would take shape.The RFP laid out not what the building should look like but how it should perform; it was up to the design-build team to come up with the rest...
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October 7, 2010As Rio de Janeiro prepares to host several high-profile events, including the United Nations’ 2012 “Rio+20” Earth Summit, and the 2016 Summer Olympics, the city is unveiling major architecture commissions and urban improvements. One such undertaking breaks ground this month: the Museu do Amanhã, or Museum of Tomorrow, designed by Santiago Calatrava.The rectangular, concrete building’s most...
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September 29, 2010Guests at the new Vdara Hotel & Spa have complained that the glass skyscraper can magnify and reflect the sun's rays onto an area of the pool at temperatures hot enough to singe hair or melt plastic drink cups. It's a phenomenon that some hotel employees call the Vdara "death ray."
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August 25, 2010The full City Council has approved plans to build a new skyscraper that will stand taller than the Empire State Building -- currently the highest tower in New York City.The project, which gained council approval around 2:30 p.m. today [Aug. 25], is expected to create 7,000 jobs and will include $150 million in transportation infrastructure improvements.Earlier today, both the Zoning and...
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August 24, 2010Look at Manhattan from afar, and the first thing you notice is the Empire State Building, spiking like a needle above the carpet of skyscrapers that coats Manhattan from tip to tip.Now it's got some competition — a proposal for a nearby glass office tower that would rise almost as high and alter the iconic skyline.
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August 10, 2010The process of paying CityCenter subcontractors has begun to move forward, although at a slower pace than many of the companies anticipated just two months ago.In addition, at least some of the handful of those who have settled with MGM Resorts International, the developer of the $8.5 billion resort complex, have taken discounts on the face value of their liens for unpaid work.
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August 10, 2010As the glass continues to go up on the New Federal Courthouse, we are getting a much better idea of how the glass will work with the sand-colored inner shell of the building. Still under construction, the elliptical shaped building occupies a full block of Delaware Avenue at Niagara Square, and is expected to be completed by the end of next year.The glass, delayed for several months due to...
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August 9, 2010Designed by VOA Associates of Chicago and under construction in the 400 block of South Wabash Avenue, Roosevelt University’s 32-story academic and residential tower will rise to the north of the university’s home since 1947, Louis Sullivan and Dankmar Adler’s Auditorium Building.
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Viracon, Inc. officials announced that the glass fabricator will make an investment of more than $30 million at its Owatonna, Minn., facility, to install a new coater. The company decided to install the new coating technology in Minnesota because the Owatonna facility is centrally located and has the most extensive product capabilities and technical talent, according to a release....
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Officials of PPG Industries announced several executive appointments, February 21, that are effective immediately.Michael McGarry, PPG executive vice president, has assumed leadership responsibility for the company’s flat glass businesses. He will also lead PPG's architectural coatings businesses in the Americas and Asia Pacific, as well as the Europe, Middle East and Africa (EMEA) region....
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As the prognosis for the design and construction industry continues to improve, the Architecture Billings Index is reflecting its strongest growth since November 2007, according to the American Institute of Architects. The January ABI score was 54.2, up sharply from a mark of 51.2 in December.“We have been pointing in this direction for the last several months, but this is the strongest...
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