Month: December 2010
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Earthquake Ideas Competition
This just in, for those keen to let their imaginations run free over the summer holidays – an ideas competition on forestalling earthquake damage before it even happens. Full details available at the NZ Society for Earthquake Engineering Pcee.nzsee.org.nz/designcomp.htm This competition seeks proposals to increase the resilence of cities and communities affected by earthquakes and…
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Apple of my eye
On a recent visit to New York, there were many things that caught my eye, but one store in particular appeared to be attracting a lot of attention. The Apple stores, crisply detailed completely out of glass, is quite a startling construction – architecture that almost isn’t there. Yes, it is glass, but it is…
