As Sandy drives, we leave behind a world of harsh heat, concrete, and graffiti and head up the coast, passing surfers and young men playing touch football on the beach in the orangey-pink light of a summer afternoon.
All of this is surely a good idea, at some level: trying to repair some of the damage our lifestyle has done to the planet by integrating nature into what have been, especially in the modern era, wasteful, harsh, alienating, concrete urban deserts.
He updated the station, designed in harsh 70's concrete, with four subfloors joining 10 subway lines with the main train station, in time for Expo 2000, the World's Fair that opens in Hanover on June 1.
The most controversial, however, will undoubtedly be the harsh, uncompromisingly grey concrete buildings jointly nominated as "British brutalism", which though they have passionate admirers, have also often been voted the structures people would most like to see demolished.
The accompanying photographs unfavourably compare a Danish example with one in Bloomsbury, the former a harsh combination of concrete, asphalt and granite, the latter a harmonious pattern of York stone, "pleasing to the eye and comfortable under foot" and neatly punctuated by the cast-iron covers of coalholes and inspection chambers.
Exposure to magnesium sulfate coupled with tensile loading is a harsh environment for concrete.
Although the selected bacteria are alkaliphilic spore-forming strains, they are still vulnerable to the harsh environment of concrete.
Due to the harsh environment of concrete, i.e. very high pH, small pore size and dry conditions, protection methods/materials have been used to preserve the bacterial agents.
Don't get me wrong, dating is so harsh in this concrete jungle that we girls have become just as terrible.
