Tower block

Der Rohe’s TD Center was one of the most conspicuous arrangements of office towers in Toronto. It not only raised the standards of design throughout Canada, but also influenced every project that followed in the surrounding neighborhood. The Toronto Dominion Bank Tower was erected in 1967 costing 65 million dollars, with a height of 56 stories and over 1.3 million square feet of office space. The completion of the tower can be credited as a historic precursor of the development of Toronto’s…

“My key objectives in the design of the Emirates Towers was to create the composition and placement of the twin towers to appear to be constantly changing, depending on the point of view and time of day,” – Hazel Wong (Abdel-Razzaq, 2015) Humans, Body and Building: The idea of harmony and proportion has been haunting the human mind since antiquity. The use of proportion and measurement to create a harmonious city scape can be seen in ancient cities like Athens, Rome, and Cordoba but where does…

Some students were building a tower with blocks and after the teacher called him over to bring a toy, he used his hand to knock down all the foam blocks, the teacher reprimanded him, then he came back and started to used both of his hands to pick up large blocks in order to rebuild using the large foam blocks. He started playing with this ring toy where he stabilized the base and used the fingers of his other hands (finger and thumb) to remove the rings, which could be seen as building early.…

Toddlers day to day encounters and experiences can influence their lives significantly. As caregivers it’s our responsibility to develop experiences for children that support and grow their development. Children in childcare programs have their days planned out from meal times, to nap times, to play times, and even bathroom times. It’s important that throughout a child’s extensive schedules they have the opportunity to build relationships, that are respectful, responsive, and reciprocal. THREE-R…

Also, an evidence of Vygotsky theory of symbol play will be found in observation 3 when Hannah sketched a difference shapes with felt pen and when questioned by the teacher, she represents it as her dog in their house. She has created symbol representation in her mind to illustrate the object. (Petrović-Sočo, 2014) Hannah is pretending to cook pizza and interacting with her friends, she then asks her friend if she wants pizza? (see observation 2) Hannah has involved in the three types of play…

it hit the bottom of the bucket so she continued to put more of the rattles into the bucket. The boy crawler was having fun by beating his hands down on to the fruit box, possibly making music in his own eyes. Then the boy decided to try and put a block, that was nearby, and put it through one of the holes in the fruit box. He enjoyed it a lot so he continued to do this until he found something else to get his attention. The crawlers and toddlers in the middle of the room were having fun by…

Cassie Niemeier Bosnia List Paper Anyone who says that history is black and white clearly slept through class. There is no simplicity to history. Most events in history are like a Jenga tower. Events stack on top of each other creating a less stable structure until it collapses in on itself, or war breaks out. The Bosnian genocide seems very simple on the surface. In fact, genocide is a rare simple thing in history, a group of people want to eliminate another group of people because the…

Twin Towers during the crash and was in critical state, verging on the edge of life and death. To you, a fifteen-year old who was very religious in the Catholic faith, it seemed like God and Satan were playing a game of tennis and your father was the ball; and the winner got to take him. Either to live with you, your little sister Carly who was now eight, but you still thought of her as a baby, and your mother; or he went with Satan. Your house was only 10 blocks from where the Twin Towers…

September 9, 2001, was a day filled with despair and misery for all New Yorkers and the rest of the world we lost an iconic landmark, The World Trade Center as well many good people including fire fighters, police officers, and World Trade employees. Today we have a chance to say goodbye again to all of which was lost on 9/11. I remember when I was younger traveling to the city, on the Staten Island Ferry with my farther every weekend ready for a fun filled adventure in Manhattan. I always…

tendrils In Roman times they built bridges over ravines like Trajan in AD 105 that crosses the Tagus in Spain the bridge was made of granite with two massive arches 110 feet wide and 210 feet tall relative to the water.Every wedge block weighed 8 tons. Slaves organized these blocks through a system of pulleys powered by treadmills.In the 12th-16th century One of the greatest innovations of the middle ages is the ability to live on bridges. Arch bridges are a very prominent bridge. They use the…