Architecture of Adrian Smith, SOM: Toward a Sustainable Future (Master Architect Series VII)
Grand Island Independent (Free subscription) | 02/04/2010
Rep. Adrian Smith, R-Neb., announced Thursday that the House has passed the Cybersecurity Enhancement Act of 2009. Smith, Ranking Member of the House Subcommittee on Technology and Innovation, is a co-sponsor of the bill.
DownWithTyranny! (Free subscription) | 02/04/2010
H.R. 4061, the Cybersecurity Enhancement Act , isn't really very controversial-- unless you're an enemy of America and want to poke around to find ways to wreck U.S. cyberspace -- or, apparently, if you stand with Rush Limbaugh that any failure on Obama's watch is good for "America" because it will rid us of him, no matter what the cost to the nation. It passed the House Science and Technology...
BLANKNEY JOURNAL (Free subscription) | 02/02/2010
Burj Khalifa, Dubai --- Burj Khalifa (Arabic: برج خليفة "Khalifa Tower"), formerly known as Burj Dubai, is a skyscraper in Dubai, United Arab Emirates, and the tallest man-made structure ever built, at 828 m (2,717 ft). Construction began on 21 September 2004, with the exterior of the structure completed on 1 October 2009. The building...
Archinect (Free subscription) | 01/29/2010
SOM�s Saudi Arabia Hajj Terminal is Honored with 2010 Twenty-five Year Award. To accommodate pilgrims during this long wait, SOM filled the terminal with vast expanses of lightly and flexibly programmed space. There are benches for resting and napping, places for open fire pits for preparing food, cafeterias, information desks, banks, and shops. Finally, visitors to Mecca board buses on the...
G E A R - M O N S T E R S (Free subscription) | 01/27/2010
What do modern metal masters such as Iron Maiden’s Adrian Smith, Lamb of God’s Mark Morton, Machine Head’s Phil Demmel, and Anthrax’s Scott Ian have in common--aside from being highly influential players in venue-packing bands, of course? Jackson Guitars
Objective Conservative (Free subscription) | 01/24/2010
The state G.O.P. is slated to announce its new executive director, replacing Perre Neilan, at its meeting in McCook on Saturday. State G.O.P. Chairman Mark Fahleson has conducted interviews with at least three potential candidates: Andrew Northwall, Douglas County G.O.P. Executive Director; Jordan McGrain, Omaha based political consultant, and; Charles Isom, Press Secretary for Congressman Adrian Smith....
MediaBistro.com (Free subscription) | 01/22/2010
FishbowlLA Breaking: Air America: No More Live Programming Filing Chapter 7 FishbowlNY: Tribune Memo to Staff: We're Actually Making Money FishbowlDC: Beautiful Brown Comes to Washington and WaPo Releases Profile BayNewser: Confirmed: Frazier and Weber Appointed to Lead Bay Area News Project, BANP to Provide Content for the New York Times WebNewser: Facebook Breaks Ground on Custom Data Center in...
Aceshowbiz.com (Free subscription) | 01/21/2010
British rockers Iron Maiden donate their memorabilia, including Adrian Smith's guitar and a personalized USA platinum disc, to an online charity auction.
Archinect (Free subscription) | 01/20/2010
Adrian Smith is criticizing former employer SOM for minimizing his role in the design of the Burj Dubai Khalifa. Meanwhile, Smith's firm Adrian Smith + Gordon Gill Architecture LLP is competing with SOM on Saudi Arabia's Kingdom Tower. Chicago Sun-Times
ArchitectureChicago PLUS (Free subscription) | 01/19/2010
The Chicago-based Council on Tall Buildings and Urban Habitat releaed on Monday its annual survey of skyscraper construction. Three of the five tallest new buildings were in the U.S., with 2009's world's tallest being the SOM/Adrian Smith Trump International Hotel and Tower, at 1389 feet. Second is New York's Bank of American Tower, at 1189 feet, third, Beijing's China World Trade Center III, at 1083,...
Entertainment and Showbiz! (Free subscription) | 01/17/2010
It seems that after months of desperate search operations to find Tiger Woods’ whereabouts will finally come to an end as he might just have been spotted at a small sex rehab center in Hattiesburg. Adrian Smith, a student has claimed of being “100%” sure about seeing him. He calmly got onto a white SUV parked [...] Related posts: Tiger Woods spotted in Mississippi!! Tiger Woods: Nightclub...
The Guardian (Free subscription) | 01/16/2010
• Mississippi treatment centre has no comment • Local individuals and media say the golfer was seen Seven weeks after the car crash that destroyed his carefully controlled and lucrative image, Tiger Woods has reportedly resurfaced at an addiction clinic in Mississippi. Multiple media sources in the southern state were confirming last night that Woods, who has not been seen in public since...
The World on Paper (Free subscription) | 01/10/2010
4 January 2010 saw the opening of the world's tallest building, the 200-storey Burj Khalifa (Skidmore, Owings & Merill). The following article by Binoy Kampmark (reprinted from Crikey of the InDaily - Independent Weekly, 8 January 2010) offers an interesting viewpoint on Dubai's living in an age of excess : Omens of Doom: Dubais Burj Khalifa Tower It is a colossus, towering over the Dubai skyline....
Environment Blog (Free subscription) | 01/08/2010
A demonstration of sustainable, high-performance and contextually appropriate architecture will soon be the new head office building for the Federation of Korean Industries in Seoul, South Korea. Adrian Smith + Gordon Gill Architecture, the mind...
New Testament News (Free subscription) | 01/06/2010
Liberati autem a peccato servi facti estis iustitiae. (Romans 6:18) More than twice as tall as the Empire State Building in New York, the 828 meters tall Burj Dubai skyscraper has an outstanding architecture. My congratulations to Dubai and the UAE for this great achievement. Burj Dubai was designed by Adrian Smith, a former partner in the Chicago office of Skidmore, Owings & Merrill, according...
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