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Chicago Gets Gold Medal for Design
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Chicago's 2016 Olympics bid was rejected, but the city hardly needs the Olympics. Chicago 2009 is already uniquely "Olympian" thanks to its soaring urban architecture and architectural legacy, its skyscraper-flanked downtown river, its Lake Michigan waterfront and its beautiful public parks. MORE
Dubai Skyscraper Symbol of South Korea's Global Heights
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It may not rank with manned missions to the moon, but right now there is nothing else like the Burj Dubai on Earth. As the project is metaphoric for the strength of Samsung Construction, the company itself symbolizes the growth of South Korea onto the world stage. A country once devastated by war and still divided by north and south
has rebuilt itself into a modern capitalist democracy with companies with a global reach such as Samsung. More
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Work and Social Media: Striking a Balance
Reuters Share
From Twitter to Facebook, social media is quickly becoming entrenched in the workplace. How to deal with that reality
is a question that more managers are facing and some say acceptance is the first best step.
Striking a healthy balance for the use of social media at work means creating expectations for appropriate behavior, say small business owners and others responsible for policy.
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Greening Higher Ed, From the Top Down and the Bottom Up
GreenBiz.com Share
U.S. institutions of higher education are often thought to be hotbeds of environmental conscientiousness, the breeding grounds for environmental activism or simply green living for years to come. And yet, according to a recent survey by IBM, college-aged individuals, whether you call them Generation Y or Echo Boomers or some other title, are both the most
concerned about environmental issues and the least environmentally responsible. More
Natural Gas Changes the Energy Map
Technology Review Share
Vast amounts of the clean-burning fossil fuel have been discovered in shale deposits, setting off a gas rush. But how it will affect our energy use is still uncertain. More
Your Career: The Minefield of Workplace Friendship
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When it comes to workplace relationships, the general advice is to keep your distance. After all, friendships can be tested by a number of different issues in the workplace. But the people we see every day at work often become our closest friends. It's no wonder, we spend roughly half of our waking hours with them.
So what's the secret to balancing work and
friendships, especially when things get rocky?
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Tallest Building in Asia Revealed for Seoul, South Korea
Inhabitat Share
A new super skyscraper has just been announced for South Korea and will tower over all other buildings in Asia when it is complete in 2014. From a global perspective, Lotte Super Tower 123, designed by Kohn Pederson Fox, falls just short of taking the title, and will be not the tallest but the second tallest skyscraper in the world. The structure will serve as
the new corporate headquarters for the Lotte Group, whose subsidairy, Lotte Construction, will build it. Zoning has been approved and excavation is nearly complete. With aims toward LEED® Silver certification, the tower will have a strong environmental component and will offer Seoulians mixed-use areas such as shops, apartments, offices and a hotel. More
Cyberthieves Find Workplace Networks are Easy Pickings
USA Today Share
It took only a modicum of skill for a cybergang to steal 94 million credit and debit card payment records from the TJX retail chain—and follow that up by hauling in 130 million records from credit card processor Heartland Payment Systems.
Court records reveal that those record-setting break-ins were almost too easy. Even more surprising: The thieves were able to take their sweet time extracting the data, in each case going undetected for
more than a year.
What happened to TJX and Heartland was not unusual. And details unveiled in the prosecution of gang members involved in both thefts have shed fresh light on a business truism demanding more scrutiny: Workplace networks have turned out to be much more porous and difficult to defend than anyone ever anticipated.
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Aqua Tower—The Tower That Jeanne Gang Built
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Jeanne Gang spent her childhood holidays out on the road with her family, looking at the bold new bridges and roads
springing up across America. Her father, a civil engineer, also took her to natural wonders like the Grand Canyon and the towering rock formations of the Great Lakes in Michigan.
Gang grew up to be an architect with her own practice, Studio Gang, and now elements of what she saw on those road trips have come together in her first skyscraper, the Aqua Tower, a US$308 million addition to downtown Chicago's architectural splendors. More
Computer Memory: New Material Could Dramatically Boost Data Storage, Save Energy
Science Daily Share
North Carolina State University engineers have created a new material that would allow a fingernail-size computer chip to store the equivalent of 20 high-definition DVDs or 250 million pages of text, far exceeding the storage capacities of today's computer memory systems.
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