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March 2, 2011The Museum of Flight in Seattle says workers are erecting a 40-foot glass wall Wednesday [March 2] at the Space Gallery, the building it hopes will house one of the retiring NASA space shuttles, according to a March 2 report in The Seattle Times.
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March 1, 2011Officials at the Hyatt Place management company wanted to apply film to the glass “edge,” and approached 3M, Minnesota. They wished to illuminate the glass to appear blue at night. This effect could not be accomplished with clear glass. One of the unique aspects of the project was that the only access to the windows was through the roof hatch that was only 8 feet wide and more than 30...
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January 31, 2011Custom Components Co., Tampa, Fla., recently completed a project to supply custom stainless steel glass railing and handrails for the newly constructed Thomas Jefferson School of Law in San Diego, according to a Jan. 31 release. Custom Co. supplied and installed more than 500 linear feet of stainless steel point mounted glass railing and handrail in the lobby and stainless steel cable...
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January 25, 2011Scheuten Glass, Netherlands, supplied 30,000 square meters of glass in a variety of compositions for the roof-covering of Rotterdam’s Centraal Station, according to a Jan. 25 release. In 2007, the original station was closed and the demolition work started. The revamped station will be complete in the beginning of 2013.The glass roof-covering is part of the reconstruction and modernization...
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January 20, 2011The company that manages Taipei 101, also known as the Taipei Financial Center, has filed an application with the Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design for a platinum-degree certification, so it can be recognized as the world's highest green building, Hsu Chao-fa, a manager of the building, said.Taipei 101 was officially ranked the world's highest building in 2004, and retained that...
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November 9, 2010Goettsch Partners has been commissioned by developer Guangzhou R&F Properties Co. Ltd. to design a new 294,570-square-meter mixed-use tower in the city of Tianjin, China, according to a Nov. 5 release. Occupying a central parcel in the city’s newly planned business district, Tianjin R&F Guangdong Tower will be one of China’s tallest buildings at 439 meters. The complex features 134,900...
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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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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 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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