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In today’s Observer, architecture editor Rowan Moore explores Europe’s largest infrastructure project: London’s new Crossrail line. Moore explains that, in addition to such factors as cost, miles, tons of dirt moved, and other construction superlatives, Crossrail also "claims to be the largest archaeological site in Britain, an inadvertent probe through a plague pit, a Roman road, a madhouse cemetery, [and] a Mesolithic ‘tool-making factory.’"
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Nov 19
Construction workers use custom-cut wood paneling as a mold for pouring concrete as they re-side an
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Construction workers use custom-cut wood paneling as a mold for pouring concrete as they re-side an underpass of the Brooklyn-Queens Expressway in Clinton Hill, Brooklyn.
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Nov 08
Nov 05
The Forbidden City in Beijing was at least partially constructed with the help of an "artificial ice path," a 70-kilometer frozen superhighway created and maintained by 16th-century construction crews to slide huge stones into Beijing.
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Oct 31
Do We Have a Legal Right to Light?
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With supertall towers popping up along Central Park’s southern edge like wildly expensive luxury mushrooms, Manhattan’s largest park is about to be cast into shadow—some as long as half a mile. The real estate boom is stirring up a debate: Do we have a "right to light"?
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Oct 18
How do you hide a building? It sounds like a rhetorical question, but it was the very real dilemma confronting the architects charged with building a new Maritime Museum of Denmark a few years ago. The museum, you see, is located a few hundred yards away from Kronborg Castle—which serves as the setting for Shakespeare’s Hamlet and is protected by law.
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Oct 09
There’s no denying that China doesn’t have the best record when it comes to urban planning and development, particularly in regards to real estate
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Sep 25
Grim news has emerged from Qatar, where preparations for the 2022 World Cup are underway. Even though construction on the stadiums has yet to begin, The Guardian reports that the working environment for Nepalese migrants amounts to slave labor. And it’s probably going to get worse.
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Sep 23
With its $160 million budget, Inception‘s special effects—the floating hallway scene in particular—are pretty damn impressive. But take away the funds, the crew, the computers, and what do you have left? Videographer Justin Fredrick Clark’s very own (and equally incredible) gravity defying room—which he built entirely from scratch.
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