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...Sagra, Spain Spaniards refer to the crash of their once booming real estate and construction industries as a "crisis of bricks." In La Sagra, they take that phrase literally. Located about 40 miles (65 km) south of Madrid, the clay-rich county produces roughly 30% of Spain's bricks, and boasts the greatest concentration of brick works in Europe. But right now, La Sagra's factories aren't making much of anything. "The warehouses are full," says Carlos Duque, general secretary for the Castilla-La Mancha branch of MCA-UGT, the construction workers' trade union. "They just don't have...
...Sagra, they first felt the pinch months ago. "Construction started to really slow in February or March, with the subprime crisis in the U.S.," says Duque, "and that's when the brick warehouses started to fill up." Many brick works in the area closed over summer, but things have hardly improved since then. Duque says most of the brick companies in La Sagra have suspended workers temporarily in a program that allows them to receive unemployment benefits for three months and then return to a guaranteed job. With the financial meltdown adding to Spain's troubles and the country...
...back. For over a month there were mass funeral pyres around the city. There will be no burning on the island this time. Fires are forbidden. There is a dusk-to-dawn curfew and residents are warned to get shots for tetanus and hepatitis before returning. Downtown, with its brick and ironwork Victorian-era buildings - once dubbed the "Wall Street of the Southwest" - is a ghost town. The only sound is the low howl of dehumidifiers sucking moisture out of bank buildings and churches...
...shiny silver handrails—has a certain sleekness; it’s an Apple product-cum-building. The building’s unscuffed, unmarred, and polished appearance puts the vogue of earthy-colored steel to shame. It’s also a far cry from the weathered red brick to which the Harvard community is so accustomed.Craig Hartman, Design Partner at SOM, San Francisco, and chief designer for the project, says that he remained confident in his sophisticated style throughout the design process, even in initial meetings with the Faculty of Arts and Sciences before the ground was struck...
Campus legend holds that the original $3.5 million Widener bequest came with two notable conditions. First, not a brick may be moved or altered on the façade of the Harry Elkins Widener Memorial Library. And secondly, so the fate of Harry Widener class of 1907—who drowned when the Titanic sank in 1912—would never befall another Harvard graduate, every student would have to pass a swim test...