The Yokohama Project

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The Yokohama Project: An interesting building usually has an equally interesting tale to tell, an epic embedded in the organization of the massive, complex amount of matter used to create the structure. This book recounts the story of the Yokokama Project, an inventive, undulating, grass-covered ferry terminal that was never meant to be built. Asked to produce some material for an architectural journal, London-based architects Farshid Moussavi and Alejandro Zaera-Polo of FOA (Foreign Office Architects) set themselves a program of entering three competitions, through which to explore design ideas they had become interested in. When they actually won the second competition, for the Yokohama International Port Terminal, in Yokohama, Japan, their plans suddenly changed. The Yokohama Project presents a textual and visual replica of the way their winning building was developed, over eight years, by FOA and a huge team of engineers and researchers in Tokyo and Yokohama. Unlike the typical architectural book, this one offers no critical texts and no theoretical analyses of the structure; instead, it aims to rediscover the linearity of the building's creation. The reader is thus moved linearly through the following chapters: Design Evolution, Building Permits, Structure, Services, Finishes, Circulation, and Final Documents. Peppered throughout with detailed plans, elevations, diagrams, and sketches, as well as candid snapshots of the design team at work (sometimes asleep at and under their desks!), The Yokohama Project is not only an homage to a building but to the many people who worked on making it real. Foreign Office Architects is a pioneering architectural practice founded in London in 1992. It has since expanded to include an office in Japan. The principal partners are Farshid Moussavi and Alejandro Zaera Polo, both of whom are graduates of Harvard University's Masters in Architecture program and former employees of Rem Koolhaus's OMA (Office for Metropolitan Architecture). Current projects include a publishing headquarters in Paju City, Korea, and a park and open-air auditorium in Barcelona, Spain. Completed projects include New Belgo restaurant and Bermondsey Antiques Market in London. This past year, FOA were among the short-listed winners for the competition to design Porto Antico in Genova, Italy.

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Exceptional.......2007-07-20

This book engages this one specific project, its an exceptional book that's deeply routed in the ethics and practice of architecture.

The Edge of the Amateur.......2004-03-02

The book is an inspiring and surprisingly honest account of the design and the construction of the Yokohama Terminal. The most optimistic part about it is the rather obvious fact that it was conceived and managed by a few academically rigorous but professionally inexperienced architects. The enormity of the project, the complexity of the structure, the problems of circulation, security, fire safety, seismic performance, etc. should all have choked the project before it even had reached the competition entry boards - the fact that it did not is an early tell-tale sign of the fresh naiveté, which must have fueled the design team.

The true merit of the team (and the story as whole) is the fact that the designers decided to go through with it. They moved to Japan and spent over two years and 23.5 billion yen supervising the project through construction administration. The writers talk as openly about their greatest successes and their worst failures.

The very extensive photographic documentation of the design and construction show the amazing story of the metamorphosis of an architectural idea into a material form. As I was reading thorough the text I saw myself picking favorite parts of the design and browsing impatiently ahead to see how they resolved themselves in the actual construction - sometimes I agreed with the chosen solution and sometimes I did not. The point is that the process of decision-making is revealed very clearly.

I would like to finish with a quote from the book, which offers a most delightful message to the youthful talent in all of us:

"This is where amateurs have advantage over pros. A pro knows what he can deliver and rarely goes beyond it. An amateur has no concept of his limitations and generally will go beyond them."

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CHINA: Construction plans for proposed $90,000,000 tire plant projects, YOKOHAMA RUBBER CO. [Japan] - Order #: 065502.: An article from: WWP-Business Opportunities in Asia & the Pacific

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CHINA: Construction plans for proposed $90,000,000 tire plant projects, YOKOHAMA RUBBER CO. [Japan] - Order #: 065502.: An article from: WWP-Report on ... & Plant Operations in the Developing World

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Title: CHINA: Construction plans for proposed $90,000,000 tire plant projects, YOKOHAMA RUBBER CO. [Japan] - Order #: 065502.
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PHILIPPINES: Construction plans for proposed $100,000,000 tire plant expansion project, YOKOHAMA TIRE PHILIPPINES INC. (YTPI) [Philippines/[Japan] - Order ... & Plant Operations in the Developing World

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PHILIPPINES: Construction plans for proposed $100,000,000 tire plant expansion project, YOKOHAMA TIRE PHILIPPINES INC. (YTPI) [Philippines/[Japan] - Order ... & Plant Operations in the Developing World

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This digital document is an article from WWP-Report on Engineering Construct & Plant Operations in the Developing World, published by Worldwide Projects, Inc. on January 1, 2005. The length of the article is 1218 words. The page length shown above is based on a typical 300-word page. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Digital Locker immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.

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Title: PHILIPPINES: Construction plans for proposed $100,000,000 tire plant expansion project, YOKOHAMA TIRE PHILIPPINES INC. (YTPI) [Philippines/[Japan] - Order #: 017005.
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Date: January 1, 2005
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The Art of Design: Inspired by Fine Art, Illustration and Film
Cheryl Dangel Cullen
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The Art of Design: Inspired by Fine Art, Illustration and Film
Cheryl Dangel Cullen
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Mitch O'Connell Goes Nuts and Takes Us Along.......2007-05-22

Like its companion collection GOOD TASTE GONE BAD, PWEASE WUV ME is a stewpot of everything kitschy and weirdly cool. you either love it, uh, luv it, or ya don't; well, I do.

There's a truly unique weirdness in repackaging our pop culture as art; O'Connell has the mystical sense of "IT" that separates junk collectors from those who can polish up some cultural junk and make it really cool.

I can't stop looking at this one; every once in awhile, I pull this off of the shelf and wander through the images of big-eyed weepy kids, McDonald's-fed nostalgia that came back to suck us through some infernal afterlife. I don't know how O'connell twists it all so well, but the freak show is always the best paet of the carnival. What a cool and cheesy bunch of Riverview-esque memories that this is: like stuff pulled out of a personal fever dream and made whole. Will our culture after 2007 look as groovy as all this stuff?

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During the forty-six years that John Hall Wheelock (1886-1978)--an influential literary figure and respected poet--worked at Charles Scribner's Sons, the company was the leading literary publishing house in America. During this golden era, Scribners included F. Scott Fitzgerald, Ernest Hemingway, James Jones, Alan Paton, George Santayana, and Thomas Wolfe among its authors. As the editor who assisted and then succeeded the legendary Maxwell Perkins as editor-in-chief, Wheelock worked with some of the nation's most acclaimed--and difficult--authors. Wheelock's account of his remarkable life and career offers an unparalleled account of New York publishing and the American literary scene during its richest period.

Wheelock's memoir extends beyond the inner workings at Scribners to his own career as a poet and his friendships with a wide circle of literary figures, including Conrad Aiken, Vachel Lindsay, Sara Teasdale, and Elinor Wylie. Wheelock's dictated autobiography traces his writing of poetry from schoolboy beginnings, through a Harvard apprenticeship that led him to publish his first collection in collaboration with Van Wyck Brooks, to his mature years as an esteemed figure in American letters. In addition to documenting the profession of authorship in America, Wheelock's recollections provide a social history of the affluent society of his boyhood and youth before and after the turn of the nineteenth century.

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THE LAST ROMANTIC: A POET AMONG PUBLISHERS: THE ORAL AUTOBIOGRAPHY OF JOHN HALL WHEELOCK. Edited by Matthew J. Bruccoli with Judith S. Baughman
John Hall. Wheelock
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My Broken Silence, captures the mind of a young man who was raised as an orthodox Jew who then made the transition to the secular world. Through the poems My Broken Silence delves into religion, politics, a parents divorce, and the secular world, which is a culture shock to him. My Broken Silence, is deeply honest and through dark humor and despair will engage the reader for an enjoyable read.

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Random House Audio.(S Is for Silence)(The Lighthouse)(Forever Odd)(It's Called a Breakup Because it's Broken: The Smart Girl's Breakup Buddy)(Memoirs of ... review): An article from: Library Bookwatch

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Random House Audio.(S Is for Silence)(The Lighthouse)(Forever Odd)(It's Called a Breakup Because it's Broken: The Smart Girl's Breakup Buddy)(Memoirs of ... review): An article from: Library Bookwatch
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When North Korea attacked the South on June 25, 1950, United States forces in East Asia were under the command of General Douglas MacArthur, whose largest ground force was Eighth US Army. This army fought a tenacious defense of South Korea, counterattacked north to the Yalu River with the separate X Corps, before falling back in the face of massive Chinese intervention, conducted a war of movement, and settled into a bloody two-year long period of static warfare. This title examines the combat mission, organization, and evolution of the Eighth US Army in Korea and its 300,000 US ground forces through highly detailed orders of battle, tables of organization and equipment, and examinations of crucial aspects such as doctrine, training, and tactics.

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US ARMY FORCES IN THE KOREAN WAR 1950-53 (BATTLE ORDERS).......2007-03-16

ON TIME, AS DESCRIBED..WOULD DO BUSINESS AGAIN.,

US Army Forces in the Korean War 1950-53.......2006-01-29

US Army Forces in the Korean War provides detailed descriptions of the Army's organization during the Korean conflict. The book has many charts and tables laying out unit's manning and equipment tables. The order of battle tables for all Army divisions that took part in the conflict alone are worth the price for the serious Korean War buff or veteran as they provide detailed lists and dates of service for assinged and attached units. In addition, the book gives an overview of the conflict, Army tactics, equipment and doctrine of the period. There are plenty of maps to orient the reader to the conflict, and the book is well illustrated with photographs. My only minor complaint is the small size of some of the photos. To its credit, the book covers not only combat units, but support and service support units are also described. This book has a ton of information on the US Army in the Korean War at an affordable price, you will not be disappointed.

A Good Adjunct to Other Sources, such as Clay Blair.......2005-10-08

Retired US Army Colonel Donald W. Boose, Jr. provides an authoritative survey of the composition and doctrine of the US Army in the Korean War in Osprey's Battle Orders #11. Readers looking for detailed line and block charts of various US Army units in this period, as well as details on tables of organization and equipment, will be well satisfied with this volume. However, readers should note that the omission of US Marine, UN and ROK units (which were often attached to US units) renders this account a partial one.

US Army Forces in the Korean War 1950-53 begins with introductory sections on the mission of US Army units in Korea, doctrine and training. In these sections, the author notes the gradual desegregation of the US Army in 1950-51 and the introduction of KATUSA augmentees. The heart of the volume lies in the 23-page section on unit organization, which details US units from 8th Army down to battalion level. Although Boose admits that he focuses on combat units at the expense of support units, some omissions probably required greater clarification. For example, Boose notes the Regimental Tank Company owned two medium trucks for mess and supply, but this clearly did not encompass fuel and ammunition resupply. This is no small issue. Even thirty years later, when my tank platoon in the 2nd Infantry Division in Korea was attached to an infantry unit, we had major problems getting fuel and ammunition since the infantry supply structure was not configured to support our requirements.

This volume has eight 2-D maps: the Korean War. Phase 1 (delay and defense); Phase II (counteroffensive); Phase III (war of movement); Phase IV (static warfare); UN offensive operations, September-October 1950; 8th Army advances north, 1951; corps boundary shift, April 1952; Korea communications zone, 1952-53. The author also includes numerous line and block charts on units from army to battalion level. Other sections cover weapons, C3I and unit status (a thumb-nail history of all major units in Korea). There is a wealth of information in these pages.

Although this volume is not designed to address the operational aspects of the war in much detail, I did have the sense that the author was soft-peddling the multitude of US setbacks in the war. The virtual destruction of the 24th Infantry Division in July-August 1950 (including the capture of its commander) get virtually no mention here. The 2nd Infantry Division's defeat in November 1950 - one of the greatest one-day losses in US military history - appears as a "setback." Further US defeats in early 1951 also are barely mentioned. Boose tends to ascribe early US problems to understrength units but there was a lot more to it than that, including poor air-ground cooperation at the start, unrealistic training and a condescending attitude toward the KPA (a mistake the US repeated by underestimating the Chinese troops). The fact is that the US Army was initially unprepared for a tough ground war in Korea and was often outmaneuvered and outfought in the early months of the war. Boose also tends to repeat inaccurate shibboleths, such as "movement was restricted to roads and streambeds." Although often described as "poor tank country" by non-armor officers, the fact is that armor can go just about anywhere in Korea, if the crews are daring enough. When I served as an armor officer in Korea, our tanks - which were much larger than the Korean War-vintage models - could go up some very steep slopes and through very narrow defiles (sometimes scraping rock on both sides). At any rate, Colonel Boose's volume is an excellent reference on the US Army in the Korean War, but its incompleteness suggests that it would best be used as an adjunct to other, more complete sources, such as Clay Blair's excellent history of the war.

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This is the first English-language collection of recent research on demographic, social, and environmental issues in Central America.

DEMOGRAPHIC DIVERSITY AND CHANGE IN THE CENTRAL AMERICAN ISTHMUS

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DEMOGRAPHIC DIVERSITY AND CHANGE IN THE CENTRAL AMERICAN ISTHMUS

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NMR in Drug Design discusses the use of nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) in studies of the design, structure, mechanism, and actions of pharmaceutical agents. Topics include rational drug design, NMR techniques in drug design, conformational analysis by NMR, macromolecular structure determination, protein-ligand interactions, drug-DNA interactions, and studies of enzyme mechanisms by NMR. This reference book provides invaluable practical information to the scientist working in drug design or NMR research.

Nmr Methods for Elucidating Macromolecule-Ligand Interactions: An Approach to Drug Design : Proceedings of the Fourth Biochemical Pharmacology Sympos

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Nmr Methods for Elucidating Macromolecule-Ligand Interactions: An Approach to Drug Design : Proceedings of the Fourth Biochemical Pharmacology Sympos
R. E. Handschumacher
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