Word: siting
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...list them in simple terms: the structure that holds a building up; the services that let it work; "the ecology of the building--whether it is naturally ventilated, whether you can open the windows, the quality of light"; the mass or lightness of its materials; its relationship to the site, the street and the landscape view; the symbolism of the form. All these, he argues, must be accounted for "whether you are creating a landmark or deferring to a historic setting...
...based his whole conception of Neo-Classical architecture on it--and one obviously had to approach such a historical object with caution. Would the solution be a pastiche historical arts center? Foster was sure not. "I went there incognito before the commission was announced," he recalls. "I walked the site for hours. The challenge was to do a contemporary building that could face the Roman temple directly but not be intimidated by it." The result, a crystalline rectangular structure with sun screens, does exactly that. Its transparent grid defers to the pillar-and-architrave opacity of the ancient stone building...
...million. It's certainly priced for success. With a market value of $166 billion, it's already more than two times as expensive as Ford, the reigning profits champ last year at $22 billion. Another of the more interesting examples of com mania is a tiny online auction site called eCom eCom.com which on the strength of three coms in its name jumped 440% in two days last week...
...vaccine's main side effects are soreness and redness at the site of the injection. A few unlucky people also develop fever, chills and other flulike symptoms that can last up to three days. Doctors have voiced concern that the vaccine could make matters worse for folks who are already unknowingly infected with Lyme spirochetes at the time of inoculation. Researchers looked for these problems during the vaccine's trial and didn't find any, but that doesn't mean they won't surface later...
...shopped online, generating $7.8 billion in revenues, a number that is expected to grow to $108 billion by 2003, according to Forrester Research, a technology market research firm, based in Cambridge, Mass. Whether you're looking to set up e-mail relationships with your customers, build a small brochure site to advertise your wares, or construct a full-fledged e-commerce site to sell a wide range of products, there are plenty of providers who will help from start to finish...