Collins & Turner Architects, a firm in Sydney, Australia, offered an elegant block of floor-to-ceiling glass that recalls the Eames Case Study House from 1949.
Because the Senate created no alternative mechanism for terminating debate, the filibuster became an option for delay and blocking of floor votes.
As the membership of the House grew much larger than the Senate, the House has acted earlier to control floor debate and the delay and blocking of floor votes.
The selection of the best candidate block of external floors and floors in contact with non-habitable spaces is carried out through the following parameters: the average mass overall thermal efficiency and the equivalent thermal conductivity.
Serpentine lines require a big block of dedicated floor space.
The former Atlantic Bar and Grill restaurant has been lovingly pieced back together, with each block of parquet floor numbered and replaced by hand.
The Cretaceous paleomagnetic data obtained from cores and the affinity in basement lithology implies a connection between the downthrown block of a floor thrust of the collision front and paleo-northeast Japan arc.
The plans for Holkham were of a large central block of two floors only, containing on the piano nobile level a series of symmetrically balanced state rooms situated around two courtyards.
WASHINGTON -- The Senate Republican leader, Mitch McConnell of Kentucky, labored on Thursday to unite his caucus in opposition to legislation to tighten regulation of the nation's financial system, as Democrats expressed dismay that Republicans were threatening not only to vote against the bill but to block the start of floor debate.
The agreement among Democrats would combine overlapping proposals on derivatives by the banking and agriculture committees, and it raised the pressure on Senate Republicans, who said that they were still fighting for changes to the bill and planned to block the start of floor debate in a first procedural vote on Monday.
The Midcentury Modern house, built in 1962 and recently restored, retains its original vibe with facade done in decorative concrete blocks, walls of floor-to-ceiling glass and a circular living room with a hidden wet bar.
