Architecture Of The Sydney Harbour Bridge - Sydney, Australia How this seemingly simple bridge became a great piece of architecture has puzzledsome. In most other cities it would be just another collection of girders http://www.glasssteelandstone.com/OZ/SydneyHarbourBridge.html
Bosnia & Herzegovina - Mostar's Old Bridge Rises Again In 1566 the Ottoman architect, Mimar Hajrudin built this stone bridge in what was Through a $12.5 million project financed by the Bank and other donors, http://web.worldbank.org/WBSITE/EXTERNAL/COUNTRIES/ECAEXT/BOSNIAHERZEXTN/0,,cont
Extractions: var templatePathPrefix = "http://siteresources.worldbank.org/"; Home Site Map Index FAQs ... Topics Search All Home Countries Europe and Central Asia Mostar's Old Bridge Rises Again Overview Development Topics Public Information Center Related Links ... Contacts Resources For July 27, 2004 Tens of thousands of people, including Mostar residents, citizens from all over Bosnia and Herzegovina (BH), many foreign tourists, and senior international dignitaries alike, packed the old cobblestone-covered streets of Mostar on Friday evening to witness an historic event â the official opening of the new Old Bridge. The Bank Group, through IDA, financed one-third of the cost of the restoration.  Residents of Mostar on approaches to the bridge. The opening program lasted the whole day, with numerous donorsâ and bilateral meetings. The opening ceremony itself went throughout the evening with the participation of scores of children, actors, singers and dancers, as well as white doves, balloons and fireworks. The opening ceremony came as the climax of the program that lasted for weeks, with numerous exhibitions, conferences, concerts and other events celebrating one of the most unique, and most important events that marked this year in Bosnia and Herzegovina.      Â
Europe And Central Asia - Mostar's Old Bridge Rises Again It is a symbol of people connecting with each other, proof of human triumph In 1566 the Ottoman architect, Mimar Hajrudin built the stone bridge in what http://web.worldbank.org/WBSITE/EXTERNAL/COUNTRIES/ECAEXT/0,,contentMDK:20246639
Extractions: var templatePathPrefix = "http://siteresources.worldbank.org/"; Home Site Map Index FAQs ... Topics Search Central Asia All Home Countries Europe and Central Asia Mostar's Old Bridge Rises Again Overview Countries Development Topics Regional Initiatives ... Contact Us Resources For Mostarâs Old Bridge Rises Again July 27, 2004 âTens of thousands of Mostar residents, citizens from all over Bosnia and Herzegovina (BH), foreign tourists, and international dignitaries packed the cobblestone streets of Mostar on July 23 rd to witness the official opening of the new Old Bridge. The World Bank Group financed one-third of the cost of the restoration.  Residents of Mostar on approaches to the bridge. The opening program lasted the whole day, with numerous donorsâ and bilateral meetings. The opening ceremony itself lasted the whole evening with the participation of scores of children, actors, singers and dancers, as well as white doves, balloons and fireworks. Viewers from around the world watched 24-hour coverage of final works on the web at www.starimost.telecom.ba
Extractions: Sector SWOT Analysis Construction Services: Building Bridges and Everything Else An architectural company in Vancouver sends a bridge design to Chile. A Toronto firm works with an Israeli consortium to build a cross-Israel highway. A Montreal company sends a management team to oversee the construction of a hydroelectric project in India. Welcome to the world of Canada's construction services exporters. By Dennis and Sandi Jones At your service Construction services cover a lot of ground. Among them are architectural and engineering services, project management, equipment and materials procurement, construction management and project financing. Because they're relatively portable, they've given numerous Canadian construction companies a natural entry point into the global market. Firms such as SNC-Lavalin, Dessau-Soprin, EllisDon and Aecon have all taken advantage of this to become service exporters, despite the fact that Canada, from an international perspective, is a relatively small player in this arena. "Our companies, even those that are large by Canadian standards, are dwarfed by some of the U.S., European and Asian firms," notes David Stewart, EllisDon's Director, International Projects. "But even though we can't provide the on-the-ground labour force required for major overseas projects, we're internationally known for supplying our customers with specialized, top-quality, construction project management services and systems. You might say that we export brains rather than brawn. That's where our opportunities lie."
The Bridge To A Global Middle Class - Council On Foreign Relations More than twothirds of countries in all parts of the world and at all stages of Much of the work on a new financial architecture has stressed the http://www.cfr.org/pub5568/sherle_r_schwenninger_walter_russell_mead/publication
Extractions: Lack of respect for the architectural profession shown by both public and private building patrons and their interference in the implementation of projects are among chronic difficulties that have remained as rampant today as yesterday. Other problems have also persisted, such as expecting consulting engineers to carry out large-scale projects without an initial plan, the inability to evaluate the artistic quality of projects, nitpicking over trivial matters while ignoring fundamental faults when judging the projects, the designers' and builder dislike of constructive criticism, lack of productive cooperation between designers and consultants, absence of healthy competition and the prevalence of deceitful practices in competing with others. Recently, a new issue has been added to these and that is the resistance of building patrons toward the construction of an edifice that is of a bold and outstanding artistic design.
The Department Of History Research BridgeBuilding Projects. A variety of programs link CAUSE to the larger local labor studies and labor history societies in the US and other countries. http://www.history.cmu.edu/research/bridgeprojects.html
Architecture From Rampant Scotland Directory On the other side of the country Glasgow City Archives have information on The website is focused on contemporary architecture, is updated daily, http://www.rampantscotland.com/architecture.htm
Extractions: Architects of the Enlightenment Describes Edinburgh architects of that era and Edinburgh New Town and Royal Mile with detailed maps and descriptive narrative. Architecture Heritage Society of Scotland The Society originated in 1956 to respond to the threatened demolition of Edinburgh's George Square. The site has details of membership and aims. On the other side of the country Glasgow City Archives have information on architecture in the city. Scottish Industrial Heritage Society Concentrating on the interesting, surviving buildings which illustrate Scotland's industrial development, the web site is creating a gazetteer with illustrations of a number of examples around the country, such as: Glasgow and the Clyde Valley Templeton carpet factory, Finnieston Crane Dumfries and Galloway New Abbey Cornmill and the Arrol-Johnson Car Factory Lanarkshire New Lanark Mills and Village Dundee Dundee Jute and Flax Mills West Lothian and Edinburgh Forth Railway Bridge, Edinburgh and Glasgow Union Canal
Bridge To Asia -- News For now, for most scholars in China and other developing countries, Bridge toAsia (BTA) was founded in 1987 to supply Chinese universities with donated http://www.bridge.org/regime.html
Extractions: Jeff Smith [Edited from "World Information", World-Information.org, distributed at the World Summit on the Information Society, Geneva, 10-12 December 2003] China cannot afford the knowledge it needs in fields that are critical to development. It cannot pay First World prices for the hundreds of thousands of Western books, journals, databases and other materials in agriculture, finance, engineering, law, medicine, and other essential fields that are needed by its universities and research centers. The depth of this knowledge gap can be seen in universities which are among the poorest institutions in the country. Their libraries, at the heart of the higher education enterprise, are outdated and half empty. The result is a calamity: faculty cannot stay current, students cannot learn what they should, and the system will not produce enough well trained graduates to sustain the modernization of the country. The poverty of most libraries may be hidden by showcase buildings but is plan to see in the stacks. The new Library of Peking University, impressive as it appears, holds a large but weak collection. The Medical Library of Xi'an Jiaotong University is more typical: virtually all of its shelves are empty and coated with dust, and a small faculty reading room holds just a handful of current titles.
Bridge To Asia: Book And Journal Donation Program help China and other countries gain greater access to knowledge in the West Developed countries will continue own and acquire most of the worlds http://www.bridge.org/internet2.html
Extractions: Information Transfer Station (ITS) Northwest China TeleHealth Service (NCTS) Knowledge Port European Knowledge Commons We have developed several proposals for new applications of information technology - some implemented, some at the concept stage - to help China and other countries gain greater access to knowledge in the West: Such applications will not invent themselves. The trends are away from public access toward increasing privatization of networks and content. As a result, in Beijing or Hanoi, the price of a book in Western medicine equals the monthly salary of a doctor, and most medical libraries have few (if any) up-to-date Western books. The Internet can send data around the world at high speed and low cost, but it cannot overcome the price barriers set by the First World knowledge industry. Developed countries will continue own and acquire most of the worlds knowledge, charging high fees for access to it, while developing countries will own and gain little. If the Internet spreads to every village in the world, this maldistribution will not change, without progressive, even radical, reforms of intellectual property regimes. The solution is moral, not technological. Until essential knowledge is treated as a public good rather than a commodity, and access is made affordable, China and other countries will continue to fall behind, and the Internet will continue to increase rather than decrease the knowledge gap.
Architecture - Wikipedia, The Free Encyclopedia For other uses of the term architecture see architecture (disambiguation) At this stage, it was still possible for an artist to design a bridge as the http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Architecture
Extractions: Architecture portal Architecture (in Greek = first and = craftsmanship) is the art and science of designing buildings and structures. A wider definition would include within its scope the design of the total built environment, from the macrolevel of town planning urban design , and landscape architecture to the microlevel of furniture The Parthenon on top of the Acropolis Athens Greece edit According to the very earliest surviving work on the subject, Vitruvius De Architectura , good buildings should have Beauty (Venustas), Firmness (Firmitas) and Utility (Utilitas); architecture can be said to be a balance and coordination among these three elements, with none overpowering the others. A modern day definition sees architecture as addressing aesthetic, structural and functional considerations. However, looked at another way, function itself is seen as encompassing all criteria, including aesthetic and psychological ones. Architecture is a multi-disciplinary field, including within its fold
Extractions: New HP ProLiant, Integrity and NonStop servers with next-generation processors take industry-standard computing to a new level and transition you into a 64-bit world. Newsroom home News News releases Feature stories Videos Blogs ... Awards Journalist resources Media relations contacts Fast facts Press kits Executive team ... News archives Related links HP Ads HP Images Student Inquiries Trademark and Product names By Susan Twombly HP continues to invest in extending the reach of its x86 and Intel architecture server portfolio. The introduction of Opteron-based ProLiant servers, the continuing innovation of Intel Xeon processors with x86-64 extensions and the broadening of the scalable Itanium product family, provide HP customers with a solution portfolio that runs the breadth of the server market, including Windows, Linux and UNIX environments on both 32-bit and 64-bit servers."
The Pan-American Exposition Buildings While not a building or an exhibit, the Triumphal Bridge is the center piece of the of the United States and other countries of the Western Hemisphere. http://www.buffalohistoryworks.com/panamex/buildings/buildings.htm
Extractions: The Pan-American Exposition was a celebration of many sorts. It was intended to be a recognition of the achievements made in the industry and culture of the Americas, but as it turned out, the Pan-American toasted the new 20th century, the progress of electricity, and the City of Buffalo. Now here, the Queen City invites the world to come to her midst and be her guest from May first to November first 1901. The Rainbow City, as the Pan-American was called, was only a thirty minute ride from the heart of downtown Buffalo. Upon entering the grounds, the visitor was treated to the sight of splendid domes, attractive minarets, towers and pavilions glowing with pleasing hues and tints, regal statues, and buildings containing attractive exhibits from all parts of the Western hemisphere. The Pan-American opened its gates on May 1, 1901 feeling confident that no visitor would be disappointed. The Grounds The general plan of the grounds was that of an inverted "T" with the cross arm being the Esplanade extending east and west, and terminating at the Propylaea. The Court of Fountains was in the center of the vertical stem and starting from its four corners was the beginning of the main group of large buildings. The most prominent of these was the Electric Tower which rose to a height of 391 feet. It was said that the Electric Tower could be seen from downtown Buffalo! Perhaps the most unusual aspect of the Pan-American was the color scheme of its buildings. In previous expositions, the main feature had always been architecture but not color. The Pan-American attempted to appease both. Imagine seeing colossal buildings colored in hues of red, blue, green and gold! The Electric Tower alone was colored deep green, with details of cream white, blue and gold! Now you can see where the name "Rainbow City" came from.
Clemson World Online -- Clemson University Alumni Magazine None of the architectural renderings of the new Ravenel Bridge features the here people from different divisions, other companies and other countries. http://cworld.clemson.edu/archive/2005/spring05/feature5.htm
Extractions: Structurally, the design team had to consider hurricane-force winds, seismic events and ship impact protection, each with its own unique design characteristics and effect on the budget. From a public involvement standpoint, there were diverse groups ranging from major developers to a minority neighborhood, the S.C. State Ports Authority, the Charleston Harbor Pilots Association and others. The bridge deck had to provide not only for projected traffic needs but also for a pedestrian/bicycle walkway. The chosen contractor is Palmetto Bridge Constructors (PBC), a joint venture between Tidewater Skanska Inc. of Norfolk, Va., and Flatiron Constructors of Longmont, Colo. Parsons, Brinckerhoff, Quade and Douglas provided design services. One of the S.C. companies that worked with Parsons Brinckerhoff is the LPA Group. LPA provides engineering, architectural, planning and environmental services for the development of airports, roads and bridges.
Extractions: Contains links to U.S. and international architect directories; listings of professional organizations; building plans links; academic resources; school directories; career guides and job links; ADA links; magazines and professional journals; architecture archives and photo databases; guides to architecture of different countries, regions and cultures; listservs and forums; great architects' biographies and resources; buildings and bridges databases; historical resources; and article database organized by dates and topics. Provides universal design information and resources. Can download Checklist For Existing Facilities, Building a World Fit for People: Designers with Disabilities at Work and other articles; order Universal Design Handbook and other publications online. Lists universal design training opportunities and events.
RE: [pki-tc] Bridge CA Update? Subject RE pkitc Bridge CA update? From John Messing jmessing@law-on-line.com That is, most other countries mainly target the web. http://lists.oasis-open.org/archives/pki-tc/200501/msg00030.html
Great American Landmarks Adventure Suggested Activities Which ones were originally brought from other countries? Read a story aboutthe construction of the Brooklyn Bridge or the Empire State Building. http://www.cr.nps.gov/hps/pad/adventure/ane.htm
Extractions: Adam Thoroughgood House, DeWint House, Parlange Plantation House, 'African House' at Melrose (Yucca) Plantation, Rafael Gonzales House, and Wo Hing Society Temple Taos Pueblo, Elfreth's Alley, and Harrisville Historic District Hancock Shaker Village and Eastern State Penitentiary Play the shape game. Identify the shapes associated with famous structures: Flatiron building and the National Gallery of Art (triangle), Transamerica Tower and the top of the Washington Monument (pyramid), Hancock Shaker Village Barn (circle), top of the U.S. Capital (dome), Pentagon (pentagon), World Trade Center (rectangle), and Eastern State Penitentiary (star). Are there any uniquely shaped buildings where you live? Have students explore how factors such as space, function, technology, spiritual beliefs, and a desire for uniqueness influenced the building's design. [K-6+: art, math, science, social studies]
Extractions: Joint India - U.S. Statement on the occasion of the Official visit of Prime Minister Atal Bihari Vajpayee September 15, 2000 Prime Minister Vajpayee and President Clinton today reaffirmed the vision they outlined in March in New Delhi of a closer and qualitatively new relationship between India and the United States in the 21st century. They reiterated their conviction that closer cooperation and stronger partnership between the two countries will be a vital factor for shaping a future of peace, prosperity, democracy, pluralism and freedom for this world. They acknowledged that this vision draws strength from broad political support in both countries. The two leaders agreed that the wide-ranging architecture of institutional dialogue between the two countries provides a broad-based framework to pursue the vision of a new relationship. They expressed satisfaction at the pace and purposefulness with which the two countries have initiated the consultations envisaged in the dialogue architecture. In particular, the two leaders are gratified by their recent exchange of visits, and by the regular foreign policy consultations at the ministerial and senior policy levels.
Subramanya Sastry's Home Page There are a number of chapters (~35) in the US, India and other countries. After getting here, took a couple of bridge classes offered by ACBL (American http://www.cs.wisc.edu/~sastry/old.index.html
Extractions: Scans of some of my photographs (not organized) I come from Hospet, a town in Karnataka India . I spent the first 17 years of my life there. Did 12 years of my schooling there. For the record, I studied at Little Flowers Convent, Deepayan Secondary School and then Vijayanagara College. Near Hospet(about 10 kms away) is Hampi , the ruins of the Vijayanagara Empire. Also, 5 kms away, is the
