To overcome all this, LeRoy Olson, an engineer at the University of Washington, devised a barrel-shaped structure of metal rings.
Trifluoroethanol is known to open up the pretzel-shaped structure of a protein.
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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And the first scene does suggest that we're starting at the very beginning: In a primordial swamp of sorts, brightly costumed frogmen bounce around and swing on a mound-shaped structure.
Paul Andreu designed the first terminal at Charles de Gaulle, north of Paris, as a doughnut-shaped structure with glass tubes crossing through the middle, but when it came time to expand the airport, in the nineteen-eighties, only a few years after the first part was finished, his futuristic form seemed more like a cartoon than like a functional building, and more conventional terminals were ordered up.
RA-180 will all be contained within the cigar-shaped rigid structure, which will be powered by four propellers and have a top speed of 150kph.
Excalibur 2 is a wheel-shaped rotating structure which spins around.
The octagonal-shaped, 1, 200 square-foot structure rests on a 20-foot-high pedestal only a few feet from the shoreline.
He tracked down a researcher at the Max Planck Institute in Germany who had just mapped the 3-D structure of the proteasome, which was shaped like a six-ringed cylinder.
Yeang's designs use walls of plants, scallop-shaped sunshades, solar panels, advanced ventilation and the structure and of the building itself to collect water and catch cooling air currents.
ADA2h has two helix-shaped structures called alpha helices that are packed against a flat, sheet-like structure.
Inside is a soft structure of membrane (membranous labyrinth) that's a slightly smaller, similarly shaped version of the bony labyrinth.
But the structure floats on a one-story wall of glass and the high interior space is beautifully shaped by a small forest of cone lamps descending from the roof to just above table height.
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