And, as a bonus, the unadorned structure of these buildings also served as their decor.
We're at the end of a boom that demanded architects focus on iconic buildings that prized shape over structure and form.
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Renzo Piano, a celebrated museum architect, is already on his third model, a wooden structure consisting of 14 interconnecting buildings, painted red with glass roofs pointing to the north.
Triadic architecture, developed by the Maya, involved a main structure with two inward-facing buildings on either side.
"It always surprises me how often old buildings get knocked down in this country and a new structure goes up, " Nivola says.
The two institutes have developed compact and portable x-ray devices capable of analysing the structure and chemical composition of ancient bones, buildings, and art objects in a non-destructive fashion.
The structure was built in 1887 and is one of 36 buildings constructed between 1885 and 1936 that compose the Pratt Institute Historic District.
"The risk factors include the dimensions of the structure, its location and its location relative to other buildings around it, " explains Matthew Waldrum from Omega Red Group, who assesses the risk of lightning hitting buildings.
The headquarters will replace 26 office buildings (some previously occupied by HP) with one massive ring-shaped structure a four-story, 2.8-million-square-feet circular building that will house up to 13, 000 employees.
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Architect Sir Norman Foster elegantly combined a refurbished British-era military structure surrounded by manicured green lawns with curved, metal-clad modern hotel buildings and villas that tumble down a hillside to the South China Sea.
Brown said the building, "like many other pre-existing buildings in Iraq, had not been grounded or bonded by the contractors who built the structure, " and she said KBR had warned the military about the hazard nine months before Maseth died.
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