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Underground Railroad Visitor Center tells story of oppression, then freedom

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The $21 million, 15,000-sf Harriet Tubman Underground Railroad Visitor Center in Church Creek, Md., The building’s design expresses the importance of traveling northward to escape the circumstances of slavery through an integrated site, building, and exhibit design.

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Achieving an ideal visitor experience with the ADROIT approach

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Alan Reed, FAIA, LEED AP Art Galleries Museums Government Buildings Designers Designers / Specifiers / Landscape Architects Architects Through over 30 years of designing interpretive centers, I’ve found that the most significant experiences are created through a close collaboration between architects, landscape architects, and exhibit designers.

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Types of Loads for Design of Bridge Structures

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Types of Loads for Design of Bridge Structures. It is considered the initial computable design load when constructing a bridge design. This form of loading can be used to design new bridges , especially those with heavy loads, such as highway bridges, city bridges, and industrial bridges. V = Design speed ( kmph ).

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150 North Riverside, Chicago, IL

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A paradox of architecture is that sometimes the constraints of a site location actually end up unlocking and inspiring solutions to a breakthrough building design. A Ground-Up Approach to Design. Chicago’s 150 N. Riverside is a multi-use skyscraper built atop a two-acre riverfront space.

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Multifamily building with 25,000 sf of amenities rises on the shore of the Potomac River

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The National Gateway mixed-use development at Potomac Yard, the 295-acre site of a former railroad switch yard, is about to receive a new 12-story, 360-unit residential building. acre site at 3400 Potomac Avenue. The design for The Sur was inspired by Big Sur, a rugged stretch of California’s central coast.

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Dyersburg/Dyer County Chamber of Commerce | Dyersburg, Tennessee

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Dyersburg/Dyer County Tennessee is centrally located on the I-69 corridor, featuring CN Railroad service, a new intermodal river port nearby, newly designated foreign trade zones, a “Deal Ready” speculative building and rail sites ready for development.

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5 Best Railroad Work Boots

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If you are one of the many professionals that work for the railroads, you know well enough the challenges and issues regarding personal safety that you face every day you go to work. Railroad professionals deal with the heaviest of machinery daily, so good PPE is a given and this includes a good pair of protective work boots.