Archinect - News2013-05-24T17:25:36-04:00http://archinect.com/news/article/64963255/chilean-skyscraper-overshadows-the-city
Chilean Skyscraper Overshadows The City annajohnson2013-01-07T00:30:00-05:00>2013-01-20T00:05:22-05:00<img src="http://cdn.archinect.net/images/514x/ul/ulvshqmcy2lfn8a5.jpg" width="514" height="304" border="0" title="" alt="" /><em><p>The skyline of Chile’s capital city, Santiago, has a new addition with the Gran Torre skyscraper casting a two-kilometre shadow across the historic city.
The 70-storey residential building stands more than 300 metres tall, making it the tallest building in South America. The five-ton steel structure cost an estimated one billion dollars to build and tenants are expected to move into the building next March.</p></em><br /><br /><!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-html40/loose.dtd">
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http://archinect.com/news/article/21463508/commercial-architecture-s-similarity-across-nation-provides-mobile-americans-with-a-sense-of-stability-study-says
Commercial architecture’s similarity across nation provides mobile Americans with a sense of stability, study says Alexander Walter2011-09-23T14:11:38-04:00>2011-11-24T09:05:52-05:00<img src="http://cdn.archinect.net/images/514x/2f/2f56763753e10e155ca9fcfa9b8ee4a6.jpg" width="296" height="297" border="0" title="" alt="" /><em><p>Perhaps you have noticed that commercial architecture lining roads in Maryland and Virginia looks more or less the same and not much different from strip malls and boxy stores lining roads in Massachusetts, New Jersey, North Carolina, Texas, Ohio or Oregon. [...] Why do housing developments and retail shopping facilities look so much alike, given how much Americans value individuality, freedom of expression and independence?</p></em><br /><br /><!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-html40/loose.dtd">
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