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5 unusual facts about Concrete


Concrete furniture

The versatility of Concrete has led to its appearance in numerous non-traditional formats such as furniture, sculpture and art.

Concrete/Rage

Concrete/Rage made its stage debut on April 18, 2009 at the Elekktroshokk Festival in Adelsheim.

Concrete/Rage is a German electro-industrial project started by Benjamin Sohns in Kirn in 2005.

Recycling in the Netherlands

Concrete and bricks used as roadfill, or grinded down and mixed as new

This Boy's Life

Eventually Wolff's mother becomes involved with Dwight Hansen (see below), and they settle in Concrete, Washington, north of Seattle, a place with plenty of natural beauty and, in their case, more than its share of personal desolation.


40.6 cm SK C/34 gun

The Schleswig Holstein Battery from Hel, (German unit MKB 2 / MAA 119) in France recalled as Battery Lindemann (German unit MKB 6 / MAA 244) saw considerable service, with the three guns emplaced singly in turrets, protected by massive concrete encasements in places four metres thick.

Addington, New Zealand

The New Zealand Railways Department's Addington Workshops were situated here until their closure in the 1980s; the historic concrete water-tower survives, next to the new Christchurch railway station.

Alberto Magnelli

He became a major figure in the post war concrete art movement and influenced artists such as Victor Vasarely, Nicolas de Staël as well as the concrete artists in South America such as Hélio Oiticica.

Allentown Cardinals

The Cardinals played at Fairview Field until 1948, when they moved into the new Breadon Field, a steel and concrete stadium that seated 5,000 fans, which was located just north of the city in Whitehall Township.

Allentown National Bank

The concrete ceilings were installed by Roebling Construction Co., founded by the same Roebling family that built the Brooklyn Bridge.

André-Joseph Léonard

Priests who abused children in their care, Leonard went on television to say, must be made aware of what they did, "but if they're no longer working, if they have no responsibilities, I'm not sure that exercising a sort of vengeance that will have no concrete result is humane." On 31 September 2010, the bishop of Antwerp, Johan Bonny, said this was "a personal point of view" and not that of the church.

Anna Romantowska

In 1997 during the "II Festiwalu Gwiazd" (Second Festival of Stars) in Międzyzdroje she left a hand mark in a slab of concrete at the "Promenada Gwiazd w Międzyzdrojach" (Promenade of Stars).

Bachman-Wilson House

The house is built with Way-Lite concrete blocks and Philippine mahogany trim.

Bang Bamru Railway Station

Bang Bamru Station originally opened as a single wooden building with concrete platforms (1968-dated pictures) with a junction for a rail line to Northern Phra Nakhon Power Station at Bang Kruai for Lignite Coal trains from the Mae Mo Mines, Lampang.

Battle Grand Prix

The courses also vary from blacktop to concrete, which lends to the feeling of driving in unique places like Toronto and Iceland.

Canning Dam

Many old concrete dams are known to suffer from AAR, including Fontana Dam in Tennessee and Pian Telessio dam in Italy among others.

Centre Point

The precast segments were formed of fine concrete utilising crushed Portland Stone and were made by Portcrete Limited at Portland,Isle of PortlandPortland Dorset.

Charlemagne building

The renovation was completed in 1998 by Helmut Jahn, replacing the largely concrete exterior with a glass one.

Concrete and Clay

As a result, Crewe had a cover version of "Concrete and Clay" cut by Eddie Rambeau, a staff writer at Crewe's music publishing firm, which was the inaugural release for Crewe's own DynoVoice Records.

Concrete canoe

The 2008 National Concrete Canoe Competition was held in Montreal, Quebec and hosted by École de technologie supérieure.

Daniel Arsham

A second project for a marker to commemorate the site of the former Orange Bowl reimagines the letters from the former Orange Bowl sign as 10 foot concrete letters dispersed in various positions through the east plaza of the new ballpark.

Dunlin oilfield

This platform is a concrete gravity platform of the Condeep type.

Edgar Stoëbel

Pigeonholed by art critics for too long as something that happened in Paris and especially in New York, concrete abstract art was actually a worldwide movement that spread from South America to Northern Europe, and cannot simply be reduced to the French easel painting of Bazaine, Manessier, Hartung, Estève or Gischia.

ETA Foods Factory

Integral to the design was an internal landscaped garden courtyard with a rock pool and fountain designed by John Stevens, and a sculpture commissioned by the company from Teisutis (Joe) Zikaras consists of two cast concrete sections of similar curving forms, placed one above the other in a delicate sense of balance on a basalt boulder at the base, and set in a circular concrete basin filled with water and edged with basalt boulders.

Farey sequence

Ronald L. Graham, Donald E. Knuth, and Oren Patashnik, Concrete Mathematics: A Foundation for Computer Science, 2nd Edition (Addison-Wesley, Boston, 1989); in particular, Sec. 4.5 (pp. 115–123), Bonus Problem 4.61 (pp. 150, 523–524), Sec. 4.9 (pp. 133–139), Sec. 9.3, Problem 9.3.6 (pp. 462–463).

Firdous Shamim Naqvi

Naqvi also remains a Director Makro-Habib since 2005, prior to that he served as Director Business Development Makro-Habib Pakistan, Senior Director Commercial Makro-Habib Pakistan Ltd., Chief Executive Baluchistan Concrete and Blocks Ltd., Director Tractebel Power, Karachi (1994–1988), Projects controller RAPCO Roads, Abu Dhabi (1982- 1984) and office Engineer Mergentime Corporation, New Jersey (1979- 1982).

Graecostasis

A theory has been put forth that the finale phase of the structure was constructed of stone and concrete and is visible in the topmost layer directly beneath the contemporary ground level next to the remains of the original Rostra before it was moved by Julius Caesar.

Hintze Ribeiro disaster

On the night of March 4, 2001, the Hintze Ribeiro disaster occurred when the Hintze Ribeiro Bridge, made of steel and concrete, collapsed in Entre-os-Rios, Castelo de Paiva, Portugal, killing 59 people, including those in a bus and three cars that were attempting to get to the other side of the Douro River.

Høiåsmasten

It consists, like the Gerbrandy Tower, of a concrete tower as basement on which the antenna mast, guyed to the ground, is mounted.

Jersey barrier

The 2010 G-20 Toronto summit used a modified modular Jersey barriers with wired fencing bolted onto the concrete.

John Fitzgerald Kennedy Memorial

Noted architectural critic Witold Rybczynski wrote that the monument is "poorly done," likening its precast concrete slab walls to "mammoth Lego blocks."

Judenplatz

Created by British artist Rachel Whiteread, the memorial is a reinforced concrete cube resembling a library with its volumes turned inside out.

Jurys Inn Birmingham

Built using concrete cladding and steel joists, this building was part of the plan to redevelop Birmingham in the 1960s.

KENI Radio Building

The reinforced concrete two story building was owned by Cap Lathrop, who had worked with Porreca on Lathrop's Fourth Avenue Theatre.

Kingsferry Bridge

It was designed by Mott, Hay and Anderson, and built by John Howard, with Dorman Long and Sir William Arrol & Co. It comprises a reinforced concrete and structural steel deck, supported from portal-shaped reinforced concrete towers.

Leo Theron

Subsequently he specialized in the technique called dalles de verre sous beton, a method using coloured glass and concrete, developed in France after the second world war, and which he developed as a distinctive style during a return visit to France in 1964, when he studied the work of Gabriel Loire in Chartres, which profoundly informed his approach to the medium.

Michael W. Straus

Straus's tenure at Reclamation during the late 1940s coincided with one of the Bureau's most intensive period of concrete dam-building, with numerous structures built in the Columbia River, the Colorado River drainage, and other major watersheds across the American West.

Michenzani

A complex of "Plattenbauten" (apartment blocks constructed from large, prefabricated concrete slabs) was built in Michenzani as well as other areas of suburban and rural Zanzibar.

Moscow-Riga Railroad Bridge

Moscow-Riga Railroad Bridge is a concrete arch bridge that spans Moscow Canal between Tushino

New Lodge, South Yorkshire

These are of the concrete section Tarran type, and the British Iron and Steel Fabric (BISF) homes, known as the 'tin houses'.

Newhalem, Washington

In the 1993 film version of This Boy's Life, starring Robert De Niro and Leonardo DiCaprio, the two places are combined and called "Concrete."

Perkiomen Bridge

To avoid the necessity of curved approaches, the American Automobile Association lobbied for the removal of the old bridge in 1938, to be replaced by a steel and concrete bridge.

Point Lonsdale Lighthouse

It is built of reinforced concrete and surmounted by a Chance Brothers lantern.

Prestressed concrete

The first prestressed concrete bridge in North America was the Walnut Lane Memorial Bridge in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.

Raised-relief map

The Great Polish Map of Scotland is claimed to be the largest terrain relief model, constructed out of brick and concrete in the grounds of a hotel near Peebles, Scotland.

River Lee Diversion

The clean, well oxygenated, concrete–lined, fast flowing water provides the ideal environment for the barbel.

Robertsville, Tennessee

In the 1930s Cross Spring was dammed by a local farmer to form a small lake that the Army Corps of Engineers lined with concrete during World War II to convert it to a large swimming pool.

Screed

In the UK, screed has also come to describe a thin, top layer of material (traditionally sand and cement), poured in site on top of the structural concrete or insulation, on top of which other finishing materials can be applied, or it can be left bare to achieve an effect similar to that in buildings by Tadao Ando.

Sonneborn Building

Designed by Theodore Wells Pietsch, it is a nine-story loft building constructed in 1905 of "fireproof" reinforced-concrete construction, faced in buff-colored brick, with a coursed ashlar foundation and stone trim.

Strength of schedule

Major League Baseball (MLB) has a more extreme way of scheduling since interleague games are done rarely, and were only introduced in 1997, plus the fact that interleague games do not exactly have concrete rules, save for the number of rest days and doubleheaders.

Stuart Richardson House

An oasis in the middle of a suburban landscape of Glen Ridge, the house was constructed of red brick, cypress wood, red concrete mat and glass.

T. R. Pugh Memorial Park

The architect for the park and the mill was Frank Carmean with artist Dionicio Rodriguez serving as sculptor of the concrete work to simulate wooden, iron and steel structures.

The Triumph of Science over Death

A large replica, made of concrete, stands in front of Fernando Calderón Hall of the University of the Philippines College of Medicine along Pedro Gil St. in Ermita, Manila.

Thermomass

Thermomass' complete line of concrete insulation systems use fiber-composite connectors to structurally tie two layers of concrete together through predrilled, prefabricated extruded Polystyrene insulation (R-5 per inch of thickness) or Polyisocyanurate insulation (R-6.5 per inch of thickness).


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