There was a spate of tax-shelter inspired boxcar-building in the late 1970s, then a lull.
Cooking up DNA and other straight-chain biomolecules is pretty easy--just link together their molecular building blocks like boxcars in a train.
One is reminded that this little brick boxcar of a building is surrounded by office towers.
The three year-old $125 million complex by the French architect Jean Nouvel is a mash-up of the silolike grain mill form — old mills are visible in several directions — and the emphatic power of transport: a dramatic boxcar shape juts from the building like a bolt from Zeus, aiming toward the river.
For less than $2,000, Sears would ship two boxcars containing 30,000 pieces of building material to any railroad station, along with a 75-page leather-bound instruction manual.
Due to the removal of the tool boxcar, the propane tanks that heated the station building were also made visible.
"The idea is to give you the feel of condo life," said Steven Shokouhi, a principal at Kalimian, on a recent tour of the building, as he gestured to a boxcar-sized mailroom where residents can address their envelopes and packages on a long black granite table.
Our train is so heavy that, at velocity, a single loose axle has the weight of a chevy and one of the boxcar side doors would be powerful enough to collapse through the roof of a building.
While the main building was 12' × 28' × 18' in size, the station also included an old boxcar used as a tool house.
Writer talks to Boxcar Willie.
PRINCETON Princeton Public Library Detective Series Book Club: "Boxcar Children," by Gertrude Chandler Warner.
