The excitement over Barclays is mostly about sports teams coming home to Brooklyn, but credit is also due to the building's design.
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By contrast, a spire is something that is part of the building's architectural design.
The Foundation Building's arcaded Italianate design by Frederick Petersen was the last word in 19th-century high style.
Other resource-efficient projects like New York's 4 Times Square office building, Atlanta's EarthCraft House and Village Habitat Design's cohousing conservation communities include such innovations as energy-efficient insulation, water and air filtration, or hydronic heating, aiming for healthy, nontoxic construction processes and buildings for humans and the environment.
Building on the Speedpad's proven ergonomic design, the Razer Nostromo incorporates the latest gaming technologies that Razer has developed over the past few years, including a new chipset and software drivers that allow all levels of gamers to program sophisticated command strings to help decimate their opponents.
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Unlike the lush, elaborate, French-inspired, high Deco romanticism of the Chrysler Building, the Empire State's massing and design is a more simplified, commercial evocation of the Machine Age, a favorite theme of the time.
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He also said the building's look would be similar to the prior design, given that the planning department laid out a set of requirements for size and shape, he said.
Building on last year's "Glass and Metal" design concept, the 2013 VIERA models continue to focus on sleek designs while delivering pristine picture display and superior sound quality.
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But though 89% of the country's hydro projects operate below design capacity, the building continues wastefully apace.
But the race to design Asia's most energy-efficient building is heating up.
Rolf Ziesing, Westinghouse's director of nuclear licensing, said the shield building design "was the focus of intense regulatory review" and improvements were made as a result of concerns expressed by critics.
Such a design would not be permitted under Japan's current building codes.
Meanwhile, the Refinery Hotel, located in a former hat factory in the Garment District, has suffused its design with nods both to the millinery and the building's Neo-Gothic exterior.
In his brilliant 1991 design for Frankfurt's Commerzbank, the tallest office building in Europe, he brought off the seemingly impossible feat of building a supertower that could use natural ventilation (as against fuel-gobbling air conditioning) during 60% of the year.
His colored glass cubes demonstrate the flexibility of design today: The pieces, reminiscent of children's building blocks, can be mounted on top of each other to make shelves or placed sideways to form coffee tables.
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It's about a firefighter who can download the design of a burning building onto a handheld device, a student who can take classes with a digital textbook, or a patient who can have face-to-face video chats with her doctor.
LEED, or Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design, is program administered by the U.S. Green Building Council that awards points for buildings that incorporate various energy efficiency and water conservation features as well as providing such things as bike racks.
Rochelle Slovin, Director of Museum of the Moving Image, today announced the opening date of the transformed Museum and presented an update on the progress of construction of Leeser Architecture's innovative design, which thoroughly reimagines the ground floor of the existing building and provides a remarkable three-story addition.
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Rather than building a federal system, it fills in two holes in the single currency's original design.
The most heartening and invigorating thing about Foster's design sense is its clarity, the insistence that the poetics of a building must grow out of its legible and fully expressed structure.
You know, it's clothes that I've design so I'm even looking forward to building my brand.
Former residents of Dale Farm have been involved in the design, which includes a public children's play area, a community building, a site manager's office, trees, grassed areas and hedging.
About 46 Kohl's stores are Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design-certified, and about 20 percent of building materials in new stores are made from recycled elements.
Its existing building was not deemed suitable but the authority has agreed the facility can be incorporated into the new school's design.
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Now the U.S. Green Building Council has a pilot project to award credits under its LEED ( Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design) system for the use of materials that have EPDs.
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