经过十年的学习和辩论,本月纳什维尔将开始清理新利18备用一个16英亩的市区,以备受争议的5.85亿美元音乐城市会议中心。照片:音乐城市会议中心管理局Sweet Song Music City Convention Center将向纳什维尔的经济注入超过5亿美元。附近的一家1,000间客房的酒店将再增加3亿美元。纳什维尔地铁委员会在一月份以29-9投票赞成批准融资计划,尽管该市对每年4000万美元的施工债务的偿还能力的疑问。120万平方英尺的会议中心计划于2013年初开放。
沿华盛顿特区的国家购物中心,纪念馆纪念在战时美国人的服务,但该网站的最新成员将是促进冲突解决与和平的最新添加。The 150,000-sq-ft permanent headquarters for the U.S. Institute of Peace, being built at the mall’s northwest corner near the Lincoln Memorial and the Theodore Roosevelt Bridge over the Potomac river, will greet visitors with a dramatic new structure that its designers say both respects the context of its historic surroundings and offers a strikingly modern contrast. Slide Show Photo: The U.S. Institute of Peace. The 150,000-sq-ft U. S. Institute of Peace,
It’s a tired, old story and the bane of many a design team: Win an international design competition and then watch helplessly as all the brilliant concepts get whittled away by the developer and its “value engineers” until the constructed building bares little resemblance to the original submission. Slide Show Image Rendering: Adrian Smith + Gordon Gill Architecture Masdar Headquarters, just starting construction, is billed as the world’s largest carbon- and waste-neutral office building. Slide Show Image: Adrian Smith + Gordon Gill Architecture This exploded view of the building shows, conceptually, the seven-acre steel-pipe trellis and its support cones (top),