Steel frames and elevators had made tall buildings achievable and urbanization made them necessary.
Between the old school of steel frames and new era of carbon fiber, Jordan formed a connective tissue.
Curators installed Inigo Manglano-Ovalle's "Red Factor, " a parachute-like piece reaching a wall of windows with angled steel frames from the first floor.
Using recycled-steel frames with large hinges, Blu homes fold up to fit on a standard tractor-trailer that handles cargo up to 8.5 feet wide.
This innovation could potentially spark a number of improvements, including stronger, lighter armor for military vehicles, as well as lighter steel frames for more fuel-efficient cars.
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Kenneth Cobonpue, who has long worked in a nautical vernacular, weaving abaca onto pebble- and leaf-shaped steel frames, now produces seating and tables inspired by fishermen's nets.
More recently it's been used to bend steel truck frames or to produce beer kegs.
The suppliers, not Chrysler, would assume responsibility for running large sections of the factory, such as the body shop, where steel car frames are welded together by robots.
Among the future possibilities: bridges that won't buckle under severe seismic stress, a new generation of Frank Gehry-inspired forms of improbably twisted steel, car frames that can absorb the shock of head-on collisions and, yes, knives that may never need sharpening.
Clothing and shoes were scattered through the concrete rubble, broken steel bars and shattered wooden window frames littering the streets.
H. stands a table littered with dozens of boxes, each containing different parts of a fly-fishing reel: discs of stainless steel, screws, brake shoes, anodized aluminum frames and spools.
With space-frames, car makers can clip extruded tubes or sections made of steel or aluminium on to a basic floorpan.
Their frames are made of fiberglass-reinforced plastic, with vinyl-covered galvanized-steel mesh to keep the fish in and the seals and sharks out.
Hyundai plans to increase the use of high-tensile steel in its cars by up to 50% by 2015, resulting in car-body frames that are 10% lighter.
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