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...safety became much larger issues in the thinking of architects. More lives might have been saved at the Twin Towers if the plaster-wallboard interiors of the exit stairwells had not collapsed, blocking some exit routes. The Trade Center depended on a complicated structural system of interior and exterior steel columns. Many new towers favor superstrong concrete cores that not only brace more firmly against wind--and at 2,000-plus feet, you don't want to sway much--but also enclose emergency stairwells in solid...
...plumb." The second is that with computers, engineers and architects can also produce accurate three-dimensional designs, then a 3-D model, which is easier for subcontractors to follow accurately than the old two-dimensional blueprints or specs. "We give that to the fabricators, the steel erector, the exterior wall façade supplier," says Thornton. "The 3D model makes for less error in the construction phase...
...Utzon, 76, who lives as a virtual recluse on the Spanish island of Majorca, he knows the architect inside out. Having catalogued the Utzon archive at the State Library of New South Wales, in 1994 he co-curated an exhibition of Utzon's proposed interiors (as breathtaking as the exterior, the two halls were to echo waves of sound with the world's longest sheets of plywood). Ten years on, the cleverly executed and conceived "Studio of J?rn Utzon" succeeds in getting inside the architect's head. "The Opera House is really the embodiment of his consciousness," Murphy says. Projected...
Ivory Towers doesn’t altogether shrug off real life issues: some of the issues and themes of the episodes, include date rape, sexual orientation, and even a presidential election. Under the frothy exterior of snappy dialogue and humor, the show’s characters grapple with issues viewers can identify with...
...that what really counts in a target protein - that is, a protein that causes a disease and that a drug would aim to disable - is the protein's surface. Since a body's natural antibodies never enter a diseased cell but do their work entirely on the cell's exterior, she reasoned, drugs should work the same way. Such thinking was heresy to her former employer Genentech, which analyzes a target's entire genetic structure. "They were just interested in genomics,'' she says. "There are 500 to 1,000 genes in a disease - the problem is, it takes a long...