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...site of the 1976 Republican Convention. Designed by Helmut Jahn, of the Chicago firm of C.F. Murphy Associates, the sleek, futuristic building had several distinctive structural features. One was the sweep of interior space, 324 ft. long, without a single interior support. Another was the three huge exterior trusses, or interlocking networks of pipes, that marched up, across and over the cool white structure, holding up the roof and giving the building a light, lacy effect. That combination of lightness and strength had won Jahn one of the AlA's prestigious design awards...
...pressure, perhaps caused by a blown-out window, might have caused more pressure to build up under the roof than above it, literally blowing the roof off. Privately, some architects speculated that the arena may have been more vulnerable structurally to atmospheric pressures because its main supports, the exterior pipe networks, all ran in one direction; buildings with crisscrossed main supports, or double trusses, are thought to be sturdier...
...Boks' house was repainted last year. Typically, to paint the exterior is fairly expensive so we like to cover it in the rents," Zeckhauser added...
Sally H. Zeckhauser, president of the Harvard Real Estate Corp., said yesterday the University paints the exterior of every single family home it owns every five to eight years "just like any landlord...
...resurfacing the house with stucco and repainting the exterior...