While that trend has been evident for many years, its slow-building consequences are now coming into starker relief, as more West European countries acknowledge and take new steps to address the specter of sharply winnowed and less competitive work forces, surfeits of retirees and pension systems that will need to be cut back deeply.
His name was borne by Chicago's first commercial building of consequence, the Sauganash Hotel, opened by Mark Beaubien in 1829.
What took the place of the blank was never intended to dominate the urban scene in the way that is often expected of a new building of consequence.
Ideas were more fruitfully exchanged, most importantly in the realms of military technology, law, administration and nation-building, with consequences that are still working themselves out.
Most of the pieces – the aggressive prosecutions and policing, longer sentences, prison-building, collateral consequences of convictions such as losing the right to vote or the chance to live in public housing – had been put in place, and the years since had been primarily dedicated to maintaining and tinkering with that basic architecture.
In seismic design of buildings, the consequences of soil flexibility are generally ignored.
MONTPELIER, Vt., March 25 —There are only two buildings of consequence in this bucoli state capital.
No matter how interesting city life has become out on the streets, the Los Angeles skyline remains an uninspiring procession of flattop buildings, a consequence of a 40-year-old Fire Department regulation that every skyscraper be topped by a helipad to allow for emergency rescues.
"It's sort of the answer to the buildings— the consequence of overdevelopment and dense, urban situations," M97 gallery director Steven Harris tells The Creators Project.
Topics include infrastructure, building codes, environmental consequences, storm response, economic ramifications and the future.
