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The Eiffel Tower
The eventful life of the most famous “Old Lady” Construction Facts ~ 15,000 iron pieces (excluding rivets) ~ 2.5 million rivets ~ 40 tons of paint ~ Total weight: 8.56 million kg ~ 1671 steps to the top ~ Total height with television antenna: 320.755 meters (1052 feet, 4 inches) ~... Read more>>
Luxurious Dining & Decor at Lucier
At the south end of Riverplace along the Willamette, beside the new Strand Standard condos, sits the new Lucier restaurant, a very high-end dining establishment with a sizable investment in its architecture and interiors. I visited Lucier last week as part of a press lunch.... Read more>>
FLARE - kinetic ambient reflection membrane
FLARE is a pneumatic building facade system. The FLARE system consists of a number of tiltable metal flake bodies. An infinite array of flakes can be mounted on any building or wall surface in a modular system of multiplied 4x4 FLARE units. Each stainless steel flake reflects the... Read more>>
Residential Containers, Prague 7-Letná
The lookum consists of „ containers“ inserted into the roof in a way that does not affect the readability of the original shape of the building. The containers – space boxes – contain dwelling rooms, restrooms and technical facilities. There are bedrooms and cloakrooms placed in the... Read more>>
Corrosion Effect on Truss Bridge - Compression Chord Reliability
Abstract: This paper presents several aspects of the method for reliability assessment of compression chords of railway bridges considering non-linear general corrosion damage. A method is proposed to determine the probability density function of the ultimate strength using a... Read more>>