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Transitions -- Design a Courthouse
The project is a courthouse designed in the town of Blacksburg. It will not only provides an important and functional public building in the local architectural history, but also improves the urban situation and zoning separation of the town. The corner condition of the project is the focus point …
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A municipal center and courthouse for Lexington, Kentucky
Thesis: B. Arch., Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Department of Architecture, 1960
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County courthouse for Washington County, Maryland Hagerstown, Maryland
no abstract provided by author
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The Boston Federal Courthouse : institutional places and the national face
… proposal was explored for the Boston Federal Courthouse, presently under construction according to a design by Henry N. Cobb.
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Holding Court in Old Town: A New Courthouse for Alexandria
… in the judicial system? The architecture of our courthouses communicates that people are guilty until proven innocent. Movement through the courts is highly choreographed, creating a rigidity and hierarchy that encourages an us-them mentality and fosters a sense of "otherness." What does that …
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Sketches Count: The Mies Van Der Rohe’s Dirksen Courthouse Archive Redrawn
… Rohe’s Everett McKinley Dirksen United States Courthouse in Chicago built in 1964 is arguably one of the most significant buildings in the history of judicial architecture in the United States and abroad because of its transformative role in the formulation of the conventions underlying …
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Building a Multidoor Courthouse: a blueprint for citizen planning in Minnesota
Thesis (M.C.P.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Urban Studies and Planning, 1985.
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The Temple of Justice; A New Federal Courthouse for the City of Baltimore
The New Baltimore Federal Courthouse was to be memorable. It would symbolize the transparency, power, and public worth of the American judicial system. It would be a modern temple to justice that would be worthy of the public\'s trust. The new courthouse was to be progressive, with sky gardens …
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A system design for a courthouse building in Boston : implementing user needs and requirements
In this thesis, will design a courthouse building located in the Government Center, Boston. This investigation will eventually lead to the development of a preliminary building system. In order to arrive at this level of investigation, urban issues and internal building organizational issues …
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Preserving the Past for the Present: Courthouse Preservation and Community Values in Thomas County, Georgia
The Thomas County Courthouse is 148 years old and is need of renovation. Special legal regulations require security upgrades, and doing so would compromise the architectural integrity of both the interior and exterior of the courthouse. The citizens of Thomas County have chosen to build a …
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The Role of American Elites in the New Courthouse Building Project: Progressive-era Ideologies in the Vieux Carre
… about erecting a monumental, Beaux Arts-style courthouse amid the dense, vernacular built environment of the French Quarter. Two hundred fifty-one individuals were displaced as a result of the expropriation and demolition of forty-one structures occupying the square bounded Royal, Chartres, …
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Expected Happiness, Love, and Longevity of Marriage: Effects of Wedding Type Preference, Gender, and Location of the Wedding Ceremony.
… affect views of those who get married in a courthouse as opposed to a church. The participants for this study consisted of 198 unmarried, undergraduate students that planned to marry someday. Participants responded to a wedding location scenario then completed a wedding type preference …
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Passing judgement : the interaction between local and federal design review
… of the federal building. Since the 1990's, the Courthouse Construction Program of the General Services Administration has been actively building and renovating federal courthouses in the downtown of cities throughout the United States. Four federal courthouses, located in Portland, OR; Boston, …
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Courtroom characters, architectural actors : a play in several acts
… and psycho-socially. The proposal begins with a courthouse, a courthouse framed not as programmatic desire but as a site to develop complexity from the canonical instruments of architecture: hierarchy, sequence, and narrative. These instruments, coupled with tools present in both architectural …
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American sanctuary : architecture & (in)justice
… place, such as the home, the workplace, and the courthouse, have been complicit in allowing for the transgression of rights during immigration arrests. Thus, there is a need for architectural interventions to resist this injustice. Through the exploration of multiple narrative outcomes of raids …
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An examination of how youth understand their rights during the criminal process
… to probation, were recruited from the Finch Courthouse in Toronto, Ontario. Semi-structured interviews were conducted with participants regarding their understanding of their due process rights and their rights under the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child. Youth who …
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WAS THAT WRONG? SPONTANEITY'S ROLE IN JUDICIAL DISCIPLINE ALLEGATIONS
… for spontaneous behavior on the bench, in the courthouse, at home, or in the public, rather than misconduct found in formal written opinions. This review also finds behaviors resulting in judicial conduct allegations occurred at a similar frequency in a professional setting (not in the …
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If These Hills Could Speak
… colonial imprint on the city: a neoclassical courthouse (1925), built to assert control over the central market; a 60-foot tower (1936), which displaced the surrounding forests; and a theater (1977), built during a time of national struggle for unity and identity. Today, at the foot of these …
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Beyond nostalgia: a walking guide to American small-town literature, 1940-1960
… in the small town—Main Street, the church, the courthouse, the outskirts and the graveyard—are places of tension, places in which the ambiguities and anxieties of America at mid-century are played out. By examining the small town as such a model, the ways in which the small town functions as …
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Linking Subsurface Paleofluid Flow Events to Tectonics and Basin Evolution using Geochronology: Examples from the Paradox Basin
… in a paleo-oil reservoir near the Moab and Courthouse faults, has a K-Ar age of 41.1 ± 2.5 Ma. The Eocene is an enigmatic time interval for the Paradox Basin, as recent erosion removed the sedimentary record younger than ~75 Ma, therefore I cannot resolve the principal drivers behind this …
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