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...handy. Prices start at $95,200 - excluding crane time. THE PAD www.padlife.co.uk A London team aims to make cost overruns and missed construction deadlines obsolete. Their 100- to 200-sq-m Pad P-4 goes up in days, and plugs into a central core mounted on a precast iron foundation. Prices start at $129,000, with first units available in September. YOUMEHESHE www.youmeheshe.com A "small but tall" house with a difference, this four-story design is London-based Youmeheshe's answer to a British-government challenge to architects to design a $104,000 house. The result is an eye-catching...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Absolutely Prefabulous | 4/16/2006 | See Source »

...name for themselves at Harvard. (And this is not an attack on their talent. No matter how gifted you are, success is always two parts ability and one part luck.) And though it's impossible to know for certain, it seems inevitable that most directors and producers mentally precast their plays with the actors they already know...

Author: By David Kornhaber, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: The Perils of a Unified Theater at Harvard | 10/6/2000 | See Source »

...Gaulle and a gold-and-silver bowl presented by Ethiopian Emperor Haile Selassie). There are also 28 million pages of documents, 115,000 still photographs, 24,000 volumes and 1,200 recorded interviews. One million visitors are expected annually to trek to the handsome nine-story building of white precast concrete, overlooking Dorchester Bay on the University of Massachusetts' Harbor Campus...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: A Concrete Memorial to Camelot | 10/22/1979 | See Source »

...banked (48° on the curves) oval for cycling races; Desmarteau Center, a 4,500-seat basketball arena; the Robillard Center, a 3,600-seat general sports area with a pool and a handball court; a spacious equestrian area complete with jump course; and a sailing center with five precast concrete piers and enough facilities to handle the expected 145 entries...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Ready to Raise the Torch | 6/21/1976 | See Source »

...lack of a big enough market), but often prevents builders from reaping the economies of standardized plans and production. Few other big industrial countries permit such a senseless riot of diversity. Code uniformity has helped Western Europe to pass the U.S. in making use of new technology, including precast concrete panels and high-precision assembly systems. in the construction of tower apartments...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: WHY HOUSING COSTS ARE GOING THROUGH THE ROOF | 10/31/1969 | See Source »

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