Dili
Dili , city (2002 est. pop. 49,900), capital of East Timor . on the N coast of Timor, on Ombai Strait. Dili is the largest city and chief port and commercial center of East Timor. Soap, perfume, and pottery are produced, and coffee is processed. In World War II, Dili was occupied by the Japanese from Feb., 1942, until end of the war. Much of the city was destroyed in the violence following the 1999 vote for East Timorese independence. The Univ. of East Timor is there.
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EXCUSE ME; I DIDN'T KNOW SCOPE WAS A WORK OF ART.(SPORTS)
Newspaper article from: The Virginian Pilot; 5/25/1999; 700+ words
; ...saucerlike dome designed by Italian Pier Luigi Nervi. This is engineering become art...course background about Signor Nervi, the world-famous designer, engineer...this innovation was that it enabled Nervi to pioneer a new kind of creative...
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The Delicate Balance of the Engineer's Art
Newspaper article from: The Washington Post; 4/24/1993; ; 700+ words
; ...three mighty triangular piers, like a spaceship in...to a single concrete pier that leans astonishingly...concrete bridges, and Pier Luigi Nervi, the preeminent architect...altogether his own. Like Nervi, Calatrava was thoroughly...In his works, as in Nervi's, the structural...
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DESIGNED WHEN SPACE TRAVEL WAS COOL, CITED BY THE VIRGINIA SOCIETY OF THE AMERICAN INSTITUTE OF ARCHITECTURE, SCOPE ENDURES "THE TEST OF TIME".(DAILY BREAK)
Newspaper article from: The Virginian Pilot; 11/5/2003; 700+ words
; ...have long declared the design by Pier Luigi Nervi -Italy's "Poet of Concrete...convention center. The city hired Nervi, who was known as the world's...s domed roof was patterned after Nervi's two sports arenas in Rome for...
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Norfolk, Ca., Coliseum to be Honored for Longevity.
Newspaper article from: Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News; 11/5/2003; 700+ words
; ...have long declared the design by Pier Luigi Nervi --Italy's "Poet of Concrete...convention center. The city hired Nervi, who was known as the world's...s domed roof was patterned after Nervi's two sports arenas in Rome for...
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SINATRA, STOPPING IN NORFOLK, MARVELED AT SCOPE'S DOME.(FRONT)
Newspaper article from: The Virginian Pilot; 5/16/1998; ; 700+ words
; ...by the domed ceiling designed by Pier Luigi Nervi, Rome's ``poet of concrete...made of concrete, he asked of the Nervi dome? Yes, he was told, the 2...voice would bounce off the beautiful Nervi dome - if the concrete might distort...
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Vatican Plans to Tap Solar Energy
News Wire article from: AP Online; 6/5/2007; 601 words
; ...sunlight into electricity, engineer Pier Carlo Cuscianna said. The 6,300...built in 1969, designed by architect Pier Luigi Nervi. The auditorium "was born half...Cuscianna said, noting that Nervi used cement panels on its 6,000...
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Vatican is employing solar energy
Newspaper article from: Deseret News (Salt Lake City); 8/25/2007; ; 589 words
; ...sunlight into electricity, engineer Pier Carlo Cuscianna said. The 6,300...built in 1969, designed by architect Pier Luigi Nervi. The auditorium "was born half...Cuscianna said, noting that Nervi used concrete panels on its 6,000...
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Grey matter: inspired by the Hardcore exhibition at the Royal Institute of British Architects, Gayle Markovitz looks at different concrete applications. (Concrete).
Magazine article from: Design Week; 3/21/2002; ; 700+ words
; ...bad. For architecture buffs, it means pilgrimages to Pier Luigi Nervi's Palazzetto dello Sport in Rome, Le Corbusier's...Zoo used a system of sliding formwork (moulds), and Nervi developed steel-reinforced concrete that enabled him...
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IT'S NO BOSTON GARDEN, BUT SCOPE HAS ITS ``TREASURES''.(SPORTS)
Newspaper article from: The Virginian Pilot; 9/26/1996; 700+ words
; ...pencil drawings of (Kaleido)Scope by Italian designer Pier Luigi Nervi, who actually was a suit-maker but once built a three...Coast estate. (Drawings feature cryptic notes from Nervi himself, including reminders, loosely translated...
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Mystery of an experienced pilot's journey to tragedy
Newspaper article from: The Scotsman; 4/19/2002; ; 700+ words
; ...a hitch just 20 minutes earlier. Luigi Fasulo, an experienced pilot in...Pietro Marci, identified him as Luigi (or Gino) Fasulo, a member of...1950s by the architects Gio Ponti and Pier Luigi Nervi. The tower is one of the main symbols...
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Pier Luigi Nervi
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of World Biography
Pier Luigi Nervi The Italian architect, engineer, and builder Pier Luigi Nervi (1891-1979) was one of the most inventive exploiters of reinforced...
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Nervi, Pier Luigi
Book article from: A Dictionary of Architecture and Landscape Architecture
Nervi, Pier Luigi (1891–1979). Italian civil...immense dome seems to float over the space. Nervi designed the structure for Ponti 's Pirelli...Mainstone (1975); Malave (1984 c ); Nervi (1956, 1965); Placzek (ed.) (1982...
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Marcel Breuer
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of World Biography
...over a recessed basement. In 1953 Breuer, along with Pier Luigi Nervi and Bernard Zehrfuss, was chosen to design the new...is a monumental, detached concrete belfry set up on piers. During the 1960s Breuer's buildings became more...
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Breuer, Marcel 1902-1981
Book article from: American Decades
...College, in Poughkeepsie, New York (1951); the UNESCO headquarters in Paris (1958), designed in association with Pier Luigi Nervi and Bernard Zehrfuss; the IBM building in La Gaude, France (1962); the Whitney Museum of American Art in New...
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Huxtable, Ada Louise
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of World Biography
...freelance articles about architecture for both academic and general interest publications. She worked on a book about Pier Luigi Nervi, an Italian architect and engineer, finishing it with the help of a prestigious Guggenheim fellowship in 1958...
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