The work refers to piles of building bricks Mr. Othoniel saw lining the roads in India, but also the 1969 Stonewall riots in New York that are often seen as a turning point in gay liberation.
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If like me you have spent a lot of time building things from colourful bricks as a child, you will probably enjoy this app as much as I do.
Protesting about the inclusion of pink plastic bricks in a building set strikes me as trivialising what can indeed be a serious problem.
When the mortars destroyed the Sarajevo Opera Hall, the cellist felt as if he were inside the building, as if the bricks and glass that once bound the structure together had become projectiles that sliced and pounded into him, shredding him beyond recognition.
Cars were damaged by bricks dropping from the building, which will be closed for several days to allow a damage survey to be carried out.
As illustrated by the collapse of the magnificent antique citadel at Bam, the largest sun dried bricks (adobe) building in the world and a World Heritage Site, during the devastating earthquake that struck this ancient Iranian city, cultural heritage sites themselves are threatened by earthquake destruction.
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Although the outside world may see headlines about fancy projects such as the building of new institutions, the change to science required in Arab countries is not about bricks-and-mortar improvement but about building intellectual capacity.
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With the app, LEGO MINDSTORMS EV3 builders can digitally view and interact with the LEGO bricks at each step of the building process.
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Lego bricks have taught generations of children clever new ways of building things.
One prime example there is laptop charger bricks, which Transphorm says could be reduced or even completely eliminated by building the necessary components right into the laptop itself.
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Building information-providing and environment-sensitive devices from the patches is as easy as playing with Lego bricks, according to designers Gauri Nanda, Adrian Cable and Michael Bove.
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