He also drew on the achievements of the first Chicago School the magnificent early steel-frame office buildings designed by the likes of William Jenney, Dankmar Adler and Louis Sullivan.
For the 12, 000-seat basketball arena, architects at Wilkinson Eyre devised a rapidly erected steel-frame system shrink-wrapped with a white PVC skin, the curved steel stretchers forming a pattern of alternating diagonal projections on the outside.
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Take a look at what happened in Chicago to the 50-year-old twin steel-frame apartment towers designed by none other than Ludwig Mies van der Rohe , one of the most famous architects of the 20th century.
Normally, circulation would channel the hydrogen and oxygen to a recombiner where they would be restored back to water, but in the hours after the reactors were shut down, hydrogen was accumulating and separating in the wetwell and reached a point where it was vented into the sparse steel-frame structure at the top of the reactor building.
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The frame is no longer assembled from laser-etched wood, instead there's a powder-coated steel frame with PVC plastic sides to help shield the various moving parts and lend an air of professionalism to the affair.
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The rounded, almost kid-friendly edges aren't the markings of a high-end product either, but Archos tempers the cheap materials with a stainless steel frame that surrounds the 10.1-inch display and carries through to the back of the device.
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Both the Jabra Revo Wireless and Jabra Revo headphones are solidly constructed using an aluminium frame, steel hinges and a shatter-proof headband for extreme flexibility.
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The company has created a slim bracelet, the UP band, that contains a wealth of sensors and a rechargeable battery all attached to a flexible steel frame enclosed in a special, rubber-like coating.
In the mid-20th century, elite car builders reached the effective limit of the materials (steel and aluminum) and engineering (body-on-frame) available.
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The tear-shaped frame of the Treetent is constructed from steel, covered in canvas and anchored to a tree trunk.
Made of little more than an aluminum structural frame, steel decking and glass, the rectangular and almost-completely transparent house is spartan.
This is comparable to a higher end off -the-rack steel bike, and less expensive than buying a stock steel frame from a prestigious Italian manufacturer like Colnago and building it up.
For example, brass washers and other non-ferrous metals are placed between the chromoly frame and the stainless steel bolts to slow electrolysis.
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Environmentalists will be thrilled that the Roundhouse's frame will consist not of old-growth Douglas fir but of recycled steel.
The battery support is also constructed from aluminium, the frame and oval piping is made from steel, while the seat is self-supporting.
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By eliminating the bulky V6-engine option in favor of a smaller, 4-cylinder turbocharged engine, Hyundai could design the car on a smaller, lighter steel frame.
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