Murrah Building: An Architectural Analysis

The architecture in Melbourne is characterised by a substantial juxtaposition of old and new architecture. Where there are old architectural buildings that are an icon of Melbourne, there are also more recent buildings that have built a reputation of a Melbourne Icon. These more recent icons are known as The Melbourne Museum and Federation Square.

Urban planning is an important aspect of city life, especially in light of today’s dynamic economy and environment. With increasing levels of crime, pollution, and environmental degradation, many cities are looking for new solutions to solve these. Large influences on the ideas that are shaping urban planning today come from urban theorist, Jane Jacobs. Jacobs challenged the way urban planners, architects, urban designer and sociologist thought about cities. In order to solve “the kind of problem which cities pose”, Jacobs promotes the idea of the use of sidewalks includes three majors. It is about city sidewalk safety and sidewalk contacts. Jacobs wrote that “there must be eyes upon the street, eyes belonging to those we might call the natural proprietors of the street.” Through analyzing and observing such things as city streets and sidewalks, neighborhood parks within a city and what Jacobs refers to as “the four generators of diversity”, Jacobs has developed theories that can guide city planners, architects, urban designer and most

Upon arriving in the empire state for the first time, our taxi driver goes on to tell us several facts about a tower that is now only missing the curtain wall for the top fifteen or so floors. He recalls the tower that when completed will be 1776 feet tall, becoming the tallest building on the New York City skyline. A public concern he expresses is the trouble with leasing the top thirty floors, the cause being a fear that racked the brains of many New Yorkers back in 2001. Later in the week, we made our way downtown to the 9/11 memorials. At the time to get into this memorial involved a similar system to how one would go through security anywhere in the nation. Well waiting in line, protesters lined the street arguing about a tower that is already 80% completed. Inside the memorial, however, people had the upmost respect for those who lost their lives that day. Other than the thousands of names that surrounded the foundations, another site to see was the single tree that still stood after the attacks, even with the millions of pounds of rumble that fell that September day.

This article addresses how modern constructed public buildings are often unsafe. This is because most of them include big windows and large open spaces designed to inspire patrons of the building. Instead of fortressing these structures, this piece suggests renovating the entrances. This agrees with the essay in the way both stress the importance of front-end security. It gives many helpful tips at further improving entrance security. Atlas does mention not wanting to make schools

On April 19,1995 at 9:02 a.m, an explosion took place on the Alfred P. Murrah Federal Building in downtown Oklahoma city. The Alfred P. Murrah Federal Building was a federal complex designed and constructed to hold sixteen federal agencies, various centers and offices; consisting of the United States Secret Service, Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, and Firearms, Social Security Administration, General Services Administration, Veterans Administration, and Drug Enforcement Administration, Department of Health and Human Services, Agriculture, Housing and Urban Development, Labor, and Transportation, Defense Audit Agency and Investigative Services, U.S. Marine Corps and Army Recruiting, Customs office, General Accounting Office 's, Credit Union, Raymond’s Place Snack Bar, Conference room, and America 's Kids Day Care Center. Altogether the federal building employed an estimated five hundred and fifty personal. The explosion nearly disintegrated one of the third of the federal building and created havoc around a 16 block radius, an estimated $652 million worth of damages altogether. The explosion took the lives of one hundred and sixty eight individuals, 19 of which were children and mounting non-fatal injuries of over eight hundred individuals. These lives were taken away by the worst domestic terrorist attack on the United States soil and the first to be conducted at the center of the

After the dreadful, unfortunate events at Charlottesville, Virginia, the distinct ideologies over the removal of Confederate statues or monuments have incited a vast debate in the United States. As a result of the great argument, people have developed, expressed, published, and defended the different ideas in the media, events, and marches across the country. Therefore, it is necessary to understand both sides of the predicament before having a concrete opinion on the issue. On one hand, the modern philosopher of art Arthur C. Danto rightfully expresses, “We erect monuments so that we shall always remember, and build memorials so that we shall never forget,” meaning that they serve the purpose of presenting the history of a place. However, what happens if these monuments were raised in a manner that offends the population of a city? That is the most common concern that surges from this argumentation since many people are offended by the portrayal of these Southern generals and leaders of the Civil War. Although the Confederate monuments

Protection of the public is crucial throughout the entirety of the project. Jake Jabs College of Business and Entrepreneurship is being constructed on a very busy campus, in a populated area. Controlling and detouring traffic, people, and parking around the site properly will be of grave concern. The entire construction site will be enclosed in 6 ft. high chain link fence and where pedestrian safety is exclusively endangered outside this area, barricades will be placed to inform persons of possible safety hazards. If any visitors are brought to the project site, proper safety orientation will be successfully completed and they will wear proper PPE.

The focus of this assessment is to identify safety concerns about the physical structures of the University of Texas at San Antonio Downtown campus. Throughout the assessment there were several safety issues that were noted those which include but are not limited to lack of ramps, proximity of buildings, placement of cameras, parking lot safety, place of emergency evacuation chairs, placements of fire extinguishers and AED’s. It is very important to be aware of safety concerns students, faculty, and staff may encounter to keep the university not only safe but also secure.

The Carnegie Building at Penn State has a deep and rich history. It was constructed in 1904 due to a $150,000 donation from Andrew Carnegie, a member of the Penn State Board of Trustees. The Carnegie Building has held various functions over the years, such as being the home to the school’s first library. After a renovation in 1940 and the moving of the library to the current location, the building became the office and rehearsal space for the music department. The Penn State Marching Blue Band was initially established because of another generous gift on behalf of Carnegie. The Daily Collegian, the school newspaper, housed its headquarters in the building from 1972 to December of 1989 before moving downtown to the

MJ Neeley Building – Day sleepers due to overnight employment must have a letter attached to their bed with their case manager’s signature. For all other bed rest notes, they must be approved by PM/CD and have a signature on it along with a date/approved time for them to lay down. All other residents sleeping throughout the day without a note need to be reminded of the program’s rules and instructed to get up and meet with their assigned CM, PM/CD. If you have any individuals being resistant or non-compliant with the program’s expectations, please bring it to my immediate attention and I will gladly meet with them. Furthermore, an additional list to the many we already have will only complicate things due to the high volume

The way people interact with these objects is as important as the arrangement they are set in. The relationship humans and non-humans have is significant because they change the way one feels towards a certain space. Since the barriers demand authority, the way humans interact with them differs. I questioned the barrier’s necessity and the officer responded by telling me, “it is a way to separate the crowd and cause a distortion to the crowd, and if things began to get out of hand we are able to add more barriers.” By phrasing it in this manner the police officer gave me the impression the barrier is beneficial for protecting groups on both sides of the barrier. If there have been previous notions that make humans feel as if they are threatened because of the object, negative

The need of short blocks is described with the example of Manhattan, where the use of long blocks segregate walking citizens and isolate people socially as well as economically. She argues that frequent streets and short blocks are more valuable since they provide cross-use of the streets. Most shops are dependant on people passing by each day, and short blocks could control the passings and create a diverse and balanced income for them.

The privatization and fragmentation of space in post-industrial urban America is a widespread social problem. As society becomes even more globalized as a result of technological advances, the rampant spread of a privatized public realm is ever-increasing. Public space is needed as a center in which to bring people together to share a common place. It is within public spaces that public life unfolds and without public spaces such as parks, streets, and buildings, the mixing of classes will become increasingly uncommon. Society is made up of two sectors: the private and public, and it is essential that both remain separate entities. However, through the use of fear tactics especially the threat of

No discussion of the United States of America’s past can go without mention of its long-term struggles with racism and segregation. From the harshness of slavery to the Civil Rights Act of 1965 to the Black Lives Matter movement, race has often played a central role in American culture. We had an entire war over the belief that owning another human being and forcing them to do labor on the basis of skin color was just fine morally. Even though we are still be grappling with issues of race today, our culture is significantly different than that of the Civil War and Post-Civil War era in the United States. One way this culture can be preserved is through monuments, meant to capture a time or a feeling so that it can live on long past when the memory occurred. Or as Frederick Douglass puts it, “Memorialization is an act in the present that expresses our debt to the past and our gift to the future. In acknowledging the nation's ancestral benefactors, we enshrine examples that can be emulated by generations to come. Thus, memorialization accomplishes the task of cultural transmission (qtd. in Schaub, 1).” Monuments almost always transmit an aspect of a culture like Douglass stated, but often times the uglier sides of the culture is passed on, even through seemingly good intentioned monuments like the Robert Gould Shaw Memorial. Although some consider it progressive for the time, The Shaw Memorial perpetuates America’s history of racism through artistic decisions, separation of

The Taj Mahal is a great example of symmetry because the first half of the building corresponds perfectly with the other half of the building. Also, with the building reflecting off the water, you can see the beautiful mirror symmetry that is displayed. The pointed arches within a rectangular frame dominate the exterior facade of the main building. In the Taj Mahal, the graves of the Emperor and his wife lie in the center of an octagonal room. The drainage holes in some of the stones have a hexagonal pattern. The many domes in the Taj Mahal form circles at the bases. The diameter of the biggest dome is sixty feet long.