Archinect - News 2024-05-02T10:57:20-04:00 https://archinect.com/news/article/54047066/beijing-infrastructure-not-fit-for-torrential-rains Beijing Infrastructure Not Fit for Torrential Rains Alexander Walter 2012-07-23T14:22:00-04:00 >2012-07-31T09:46:04-04:00 <img src="https://archinect.gumlet.io/uploads/6u/6ugwmd9yn6ctj5co.png?fit=crop&auto=compress%2Cformat&enlarge=true&w=1200" border="0" /><em><p>As China's flood-ravaged capital dealt with the aftermath of the heaviest rain in six decades Monday, including the deaths of 37 people, questions were being raised about whether the city's push for modernization came at the expense of basic infrastructure such as drainage networks. [...] The city has seen tens of billions of dollars poured into its modernization [...] &mdash; all while basics like water drainage were apparently neglected.</p></em><br /><br /><!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-html40/loose.dtd"> <html><head><meta></head></html> https://archinect.com/news/article/9321107/the-glue-society-s-i-wish-you-hadn-t-asked The Glue Society's "I Wish You Hadn't Asked" Paul Petrunia 2011-06-09T12:59:11-04:00 >2011-06-09T13:01:17-04:00 <img src="https://archinect.gumlet.io/uploads/80/8054ce8e77954e0d3b05ade42875b39e?fit=crop&auto=compress%2Cformat&enlarge=true&w=1200" border="0" /><em><p>For this new project, The Glue Society has constructed a fully functional house in Aarhus, and for the month of June is making it rain continuously indoors, with the resulting decomposition of the building being observable both inside and out.</p></em><br /><br /><!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-html40/loose.dtd"> <html><head><meta></head></html>