The Seagram Building is prime example of the international style of design in the 20th century. The building is a true landmark of the city having an open plaza at the base of the building with high ceilings‚ floor to ceiling tinted windows and bronze mullions. Its imperious design‚ set in a plaza with fountain‚ was imitated many times and became an icon of North American corporate design. Mies is known as the father of the steel and glass structure. Mies designed many buildings during his life however
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dangerous area. The first record is of a cobblestone paving in Assyria in about 4000 BC. The oldest extant road was constructed trough the mountains of Crete‚ from Knossus to Leben in about 2000 BC. It could have been man’s first effort at major road building as it was no mean structure with elaborate longitudinal drains‚ a 200 mm basecourse of sandstone in a clay-gypsum mortar‚ and a 4m longitudinal surface of basalt blocks. The first major arterial road was probably 2.5Km route built by Assyria from
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Introduction The "Building Envelope" is the area that separates conditioned space from unconditioned space or the outdoors. A building envelope includes all elements of a building that enclose conditioned space. Building envelope components separate conditioned spaces from unconditioned spaces or from outside air. For example‚ walls and doors between living areas are part of the building envelope; walls separating a garage from the living areas are not. Besides that‚ floors of conditioned basements
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The Role of Youth in National Building and Progress “Youth is the spirit of adventure and awakening. It is a time of physical emerging when the body attains the vigor and good health that may ignore the caution of temperance. Youth is a period of timelessness when the horizons of age seem too distant to be noticed.” Ezra Taft Benson ‘Youth’ defines the group of individual
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and political impacts. Although Islamic Caliphates and Mongol Khanates had different approaches with some similarities‚ they still managed to expand and build a larger empire with their strategic thinking. A majority of state building branched from religious‚ political and power of control impacts that could innovate and create empires but was not promised to maintain successfully. Islamic Caliphates purpose originally were successors to Muhammad as
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Hudson Burnham was the architect responsible for creating the Flatiron Building in New York City‚ which opened in 1902. Born in Henderson‚ New York and raised in Chicago‚ Illinois‚ Burnham first apprenticed as a draftsman under William LaBaron Jenney. At the age of 26 he met future business partner John Wellborn Root‚ and together they were responsible for the design of one of America’s first skyscrapers: the Masonic Temple Building in Chicago. As an internationally prominent figure‚ Daniel Burnham
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In the middle of Manhattan‚ a non-descript building produced some of Rock and Roll’s iconic music of the 1950 and 60s. The period is steeped in harmonious girl bands‚ teen idols and probably the quintessential hallmark of this time period of Rock and Roll was the professional produced sound. The two titans of music producing hit after hit during this time period were the duo of Jerry Lieber and Mike Stoller and the other was once a student of Lieber and Stoller‚ Phil Spector and his infamous wall
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Sustainable building" is the design and construction of buildings using methods and materials that are resource efficient and that will not compromise the health of the environment or the associated health and well-being of the building’s occupants‚ construction workers‚ the general public‚ or future generations. Green building (also known as green construction or sustainable building) is the practice of creating structures and using processes that are environmentally responsible and resource-efficient
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materials‚ fixing and joints for soil and waste pipe 5.Discuss vent pipe SUB-TOPIC 2.Understand rainwater management 1.Discuss the following : 1.rain water downpipe 2.gully trap 3.gutter 2.Discuss rain water harvesting methods CA205 BUILDING SERVICES 1 TOPIC 3: SOIL AND WASTE SYSTEM TWO PIPE SYSTEM ONE PIPE SYSTEM •Soil/Waste fixture such as urinals & water closets connected to vertical soil pipe. • There is one soil pipe & all the waste matter from waster closets
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ROLE OF A TEACHER IN BUILDING CHARACTER OF A STUDENT IT IS NOT EVERYTHING THAT EXPERIENCE CAN TEACH US WE CANNOT LEARN ETIQUETTE AND MANNERS FROM EXPERIENCE BECAUSE CHILDREN ARE LIKE CLAY IN A POTTER’S HAND JUST AS A POTTER’S GIVES A DESIRED SHAPE TO THE CLAY IN HIS HANDS‚SO DO CHILDREN BECOME WHAT THEIR TEACHERS MAKE THEM. THEREFORE THERE IS NO DENYING IN THE FACT THAT THE ROLE OF A TEACHER IN A STUDENT’S LIFE IS VERY CRUCIAL RIGHT FROM THE TIME WHEN CHILD JOINS A DAY CARE CENTER TO THE STAGE
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