Word: site
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...skyscraper's essential steel cage as dramatically as possible and with a maximum of economy. In the Seagram building, he did this with deceptive simplicity. To avoid the stairstep building plan that Manhattan architects have overused to meet zoning requirements (the tower must be only 25% of the site area), Mies sacrificed valuable Park Avenue frontage, threw open a wide plaza. This gave him an opportunity to create an accent of emptiness, at the same time gave his building a dramatic setting...
...coincidence that the launching site for the projectile in Jules Verne's From the Earth to the Moon was distant from Cape Canaveral by only the width of Florida...
...realized were having eye trouble before the age of seven. There is a similar page for bones and postural development. Reflecting current concern about radiation, a section has been added to record use of X rays, in both diagnosis and treatment, with the dosage of radiation used and the site affected...
...fingerlings back safely through turbine blades and out to sea. Nothing has really succeeded. At dams higher than 100 ft., fish have to be trucked by land both ways, and Nez Perce sounded like a conservationist's nightmare. Not only would it be 800 ft. high, but its site below the confluence of the fish-rich Salmon and Imnaha Rivers might eliminate nearly 25% of all fingerlings that eventually swim down the Columbia...
...work and keep output low are written into thousands of building-trades contracts. Most painters insist on using brushes where sprayers would do the job a lot faster. Carpenters resist prefabricated panels, and in some places panels fastened together at the factory are actually taken apart at the building site and nailed together again. Some locals lay down a maximum daily quota of bricks, studs or square feet of surface for bricklayers, carpenters, painters. Specialization is carried to the point where a contractor on a small job may have to hire one pipe fitter to lay the pipe...