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Buildings: Encyclopedia - Build

Build may mean: the process of building physical stature, especially muscle size the Build engine, a first-person shooter engine by 3D Realms a software build, a compiled version of software or the process of producing it See also: Bild Other related archives3D Realms, Bild, Build engine, building, compiled, engine, first-person shooter, muscle, software, software build, version

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Buildings: Encyclopedia - Building
Building is either the act of creating an object assembled from more than one element, or the object itself; see also construction. A building is usually a human-created object composed of more than a single element, permanently fixed to the ground, that mediates one or more aspects of the environment. Buildings may be as simple as a lone roof providing shelter from the rain for a single occupant, or as complex as a hospital regulating temperature, air flow, light, gas content, bacteria movement, particle flow ...

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Buildings: Encyclopedia II - Bradbury Building - The building

The building itself features an Italian Renaissance-style exterior facade of brown brick, sandstone and panels of terra cotta details, in the "commercial Romanesque" that was the current idiom in East Coast American cities. The center court of the interior is the part of the building that is known for its remarkable beauty. The five-story central court features glazed brick, ornamental cast iron, tiling, rich marble, and polished wood, capped by a skylight that allows the court to be flooded with natural rather than artificial, light. ...

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Bradbury Building, Bradbury Building - History, Bradbury Building - The building, Bradbury Building - Construction, Bradbury Building - The building today, Bradbury Building - Visitors

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Buildings: Encyclopedia - Commercial building

A commercial building is a type of building that is used for commercial use. These can include office buildings, warehouses, etc. See also. Class A office space ...

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Buildings: Encyclopedia - Beehive building

The Beehive is the common name for the Executive Wing of the New Zealand Parliament Buildings, located at the corner of Molesworth Street and Lambton Quay, Wellington. Credit for the design is usually given to British architect Sir Basil Spence, who made a rough sketch on the back of a dinner napkin in 1964. The building was subsequently drafted and constructed by government departments and completed in 1981. The building is ten storeys (72 m) high. The top floor is occupied by the Cabinet offices, with the Prime Minister's offices on the floor immediately below. Other fl ...

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Buildings: Encyclopedia - Duplex building

A duplex apartment is a two-unit apartment building or condominium, usually indistinguishable from a normal house on the exterior. Duplexes are especially common in the Northeastern United States and urban areas throughout the United States. Duplex can also refer to three- and four-unit buildings, as triplex and quadruplex usually refer to movie theatres. The line between an apartment building and a duplex is therefore somewhat blurred, with apartment buildings tending to be bigger ...

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Buildings: Encyclopedia - Green Building MIT

The Cecil and Ida Green Building (Building 54) is an academic building at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, Massachusetts. It was designed by noted architect I. M. Pei, a graduate of the institute. The Green Building was constructed 1962-1964. It is 21 stories tall, with a concrete facade that more or less matches the older limestone around it. The basement of the building is below sea level and connects to the MIT tunnel system. Three elevators operate in the Green Building. There are staircases on both the ...

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Buildings: Encyclopedia - Ariel Rios Building

The Ariel Rios Building is across 12th Street from the Old Post Office (Washington), in the Federal Triangle in Washington, D.C.. The Rios Building is now the headquarters of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency. In 1914, the District of Columbia Mail Depot was moved to a larger building constructed next to Union Station. Although only 15 years old, the building at 12th Street and Pennsylvania Avenue was dubbed the "old" post office. In the 1920s, Treasury Secretary Andrew Mellon's building commission developed the Federal Triangle and actively sought the Old Post Office's demolition, as it did ...

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Buildings: Encyclopedia - Building material

Building material is any material which is used for a construction purpose. Just about every type of available material has been used at one time or another for creating various human and animal homes, structures, and technologies. This reference deals with habitat structures including homes. For other kinds of building materials, see Hardware, Biology, Star formation. Building material - Human building materials. Living spaces and their related structures have been created using myriad materials, fr ...

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Buildings: Encyclopedia - Building society

Building society is the name given in 19th century Britain for working men's co-operative savings groups: by pooling savings, members could buy or build their own homes. Building society - Origins. The original Building Society was formed in Birmingham in 1774. Most of the original societies were fully terminating, where they would be dissolved when all members had a house: the last of them was wound up in 1980. In the 1830s and 1840s a new development took place with the Permanent Building Societ ...

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Buildings: Encyclopedia - Chrysler Building

Completed in 1930, the Chrysler Building is a distinctive symbol of New York City, standing 1,046 feet (319 m) high on the east side of Manhattan at the intersection of 42nd Street and Lexington Avenue. Originally built for the Chrysler Corporation, the building is presently co-owned by TMW Real Estate (75%) and Tishman Speyer Properties (25%). The Chrysler building was designed by William van Alen for a contractor, William H. Reynolds, the same man who dreamed up Dreamland, a by-gone amusement park of Coney Island's heyday. The design was subsequently sold to Walt ...

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Buildings: Encyclopedia - Building code

A building code is a set of laws that specify how buildings should be constructed. This is generally considered the minimum acceptable level of safety for a new building in a jurisdiction. Building codes are generally intended to be applied by architects and engineers. There is often other codes or sections of the building code that have more prescriptive requirements that apply to housing (one and two family dwellings). In some countries the building codes are National Codes and apply across the country. In other countries the ...

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Buildings: Encyclopedia - Autonomous building

An autonomous building is a building designed to be operated independently from infrastructual support services such as the electric power power grid, municipal water systems, sewage treatment systems, storm drains, communication services, and (in some cases) public roads. Advocates of autonomous building describe advantages that include reduced environmental impacts, increased security, and cost efficiencies. Some cited advantages satisfy tenets of green building, not independence per se; (see below.) Off-grid buildings often rely very little on civil services, and are therefore safer and m ...

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Buildings: Encyclopedia - Apartment building

An apartment building, block of flats or tenement is a multi-unit dwelling made up of several (generally four or more) apartments (US) or flats (UK). Where the building is a high-rise construction, it is termed a tower block in the UK and elsewhere. The term apartment building is used regardless of height in the US. A two-unit dwelling is known as a duplex (US) or mais ...

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Buildings: Encyclopedia - Barn building

A barn is an agricultural building used for storage and as a covered workplace. It may sometimes be used to house animals or store vehicles, and is often found on a farm. On older style barns, the upper area was used to store hay and sometimes grain. This is called the mow. A large door at the top one of the ends of the barn opened up so hay could be put in the mow. The hay was hoisted into the barn by a system containing pulleys and a trolley that ra ...

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Buildings: Encyclopedia - Clinker boat building

Clinker building is a method of constructing hulls of boats and ships by fixing wooden planks and in the early nineteenth century, iron plates to each other so that the planks overlap along their edges. The overlapping joint is called a land. In any but a very small boat, the planks will be joined also, end to end. The whole length of one of these composite planks is a strake. The technique developed in northern Europe and was successfully used by the Vikings. The construction method is known in some places as lapstrake.

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Buildings: Encyclopedia - Boat building

Boat building is one of the oldest branches of engineering and is concerned with constructing the hulls of boats and, for sailboats, the masts, spars and rigging. Boat building - Portions. Each part of the hull has a different name and purpose: bow - the front and generally sharp end of the hull. It is designed to reduce the resistance of the hull cutting through water and should be tall enough to prevent water from easily washing over the top of the hull. bulkhead - the internal walls ...

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Buildings: Encyclopedia II - Garden buildings - Garden buildings

(This section would benefit from material on garden buildings in China and Japan) Arguably, the oldest fragment of a garden building is at Pasargadae in Iran. It was an encampment garden and the building was a pavilion dwelling for Cyrus the Great. The Romans erected numerous small pavilions in gardens and examples survive at Pompeii. The making of luxury gardens resumed with the renaissance and so did the construction of garden buildings. The taste for garden buildings then spread north of the Alps and small buildings became characte ...

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Garden buildings, Garden buildings - Garden buildings

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Buildings: Encyclopedia - Cob building

Cob is a building material. It consists of a mixture of clay, sand and straw. Cob has recently been rediscovered as a low-cost and artistic building technique, and cob houses are now being built again. See also. Sod Mudbrick Chirpici (a variant of cob used in Southern Romania) Straw-bale construction Rice-hull bagwall construction ...

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Buildings: Encyclopedia II - Bradbury Building - The building today

Although the building has operated as an office building for most of its history, that has changed as it has recently come under government protection and historical preservation as it has been designated a National Historic Landmark. Today, the building serves as headquarters for the Los Angeles Police Department's Internal Affairs division and other government agencies. It appears the City of Los Angeles, California has become interested in once again leasing ...

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Bradbury Building, Bradbury Building - History, Bradbury Building - The building, Bradbury Building - Construction, Bradbury Building - The building today, Bradbury Building - Visitors

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