This double-thick construction, said Walter Thinnes, the vice president of Rose Hall, prevents cellphones from working in the auditorium.
The Museum of Modern Art will close its doors in the spring of 2002, in the thick of construction to expand its Midtown Manhattan campus, and move to an exhibition space in Long Island City, Queens, for a little over two years, the museum's director said yesterday.
He inherited from Barragan a distrust of the glass curtain wall, preferring the sense of enclosure and stability provided by thick-wall construction.
I was struck by how familiar Montreal's large immigrant Jewish neighborhoods might have seemed, at least on the surface, to my father in 1928, when he arrived at the age of fourteen: the same hard winter and the same thick-walled constructions, the same forested hills, the same churches, the same easy insular Yiddish dominating commerce in textiles and clothing — the shmate ("rag") business.
I was struck by how familiar Montreal's large immigrant Jewish neighborhoods might have seemed, at least on the surface, to my father in 1928, when he arrived at the age of fourteen: the same hard winter and the same thick-walled constructions, the same forested hills, the same churches, the same easy insular Yiddish dominating commerce in textiles and clothing the shmate ("rag") business.
The air is thick with the construction dust of new glass-fronted high-rise buildings.
Avoid using thick paper or construction paper for the triangles.
Thick paper like construction paper is hard to fold and the frog will jump poorly.
Notebook or printer paper will work better than thicker paper or construction paper because it will be easier to fold, and because it will lighter and easier to use in a game of paper football.
Drainage problems required the construction of thick containment walls.
