As new jobs, especially those in the high-technology industries, were created in Maryland and Virginia, the population of the suburbs increased as much as 50 percent per decade.

For instance, in the Westinghouse AP1000 design, residual heat would be removed from the reactor by water circulating under the influence of gravity from reservoirs located inside the reactor’s …

Architecture - Planning, Design, Construction: The architect usually begins to work when the site and the type and cost of a building have been determined.

Nov 19, 2025 · Washington Monument, obelisk in Washington, D.C., honouring George Washington, the first president of the United States. Constructed of granite faced with Maryland marble, the structure …

Nov 26, 2025 · By referring to a number of extant Elizabethan buildings for clues to the structure, style, interior, and roofing, scholars and architects completed the design of the Globe Theatre reconstruction.

Hostile architecture is an urban design strategy that uses elements of the built environment to guide or restrict certain behaviors in public spaces, such as sleeping, skateboarding, using illicit substances, …

Nov 28, 2025 · Such reasoned judgments are an essential part of the architectural creative process. A building can be designed only by a continuous creative, intellectual dialectic between imagination …

5 days ago · The building’s history begins in 1792, when a public competition was held to choose a design for a presidential residence in the new capital city of Washington. Irish American architect …

Oct 16, 2025 · The location for the new territory was centralized among the Eastern Seaboard states and was about 90 miles (145 km) inland from the Atlantic Ocean on land ceded by Maryland and …

1 day ago · The building’s history begins in 1792, when a public competition was held to choose a design for a presidential residence in the new capital city of Washington.