Unique Building Around The World

Atlantis Hotel, The BahamasFeaturing a 42 acre water park and an 11 acre dolphin lagoon, all situated on the gorgeous blue water.


Hotel in Bratislava, Slovakia

Dancing House, Prague, Czech RepublicThe Nationale-Nederlanden Building is generally called the Dancing House, and has been known as the Drunk House and Fred and Ginger. Some people claim the building resembles Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers. Czech President Vaclev Havel lived next door to the house for many years.


Esplanade Theatres, SingaporeTheatres is correct. In the image only one dome is visible but there are actually two domes housing a 1,600 seat concert arena and a 2,000 seat theatre. On the third floor of one dome is a public arts library and above that an open space for viewing.


Habitat 67, Montreal, Quebec, CanadaOriginally built as affordable housing the apartment units are much more expansive than this one section indicates, stretching far along Montreol's Saint Lawrence River port. Due to the snazzy architectural styling the units are now far from affordable.


Sesto san Giovanni High School, Italy


Hotel Marques de Riscal, Elciego, Spain


House in the Clouds, Thorpeness, Suffolk, EnglandA bizarre home that you can rent. Sits on an acre of private gardens in the English countryside, has five bedrooms, and rents for $709 to $993 US dollars per night.


Kansas City Public Library, Kansas City, MissouriThis amazing facade has to encourage a person to visit the library, to read a book.


Puerto de Europa Towers, Madrid, SpainThese office towers tilt at an angle of fifteen degrees, though it appears to be much steeper.

Steel House, Amarillo, TexasDesigned and welded from sheets of steel in the desert landscape of West Texas, it reminds one of so much dicarded and rusted metal perched on the hillside.


Stone House, Guimaraes, Portugal


The Crooked House, Sopot, PolandBuilt in 2004 and inspired by fairy tales this structure, located in a shopping center, is the most photographed building in Poland


The Device To Root Out Evil, Vancouver, CanadaDennis Oppenheim of New York City created this sculpture of a country church turned on it's steeple and when no New York location became available it was shuffled off to Stanford University in California. Stanford quietly sent it packing to laid-back Vancouver, Canada to avoid controversy about the upside-down church. As Stanford had, Vancouver made noise about wanting it and appreciating it and soon thereafter was looking to get rid of it. Calgary, Canada came to the rescue and for now at least that is where the work can be viewed.


HSB Turning Torso, Malmo, SwedenAt 54 stories and 623 feet the Turning Torso is the tallest building in Scandanavia, and being a residential structure, the tallest of all the residential buildings in the European Union. The twisitng skyscraper was based on a sculptue by architect Calatrava called Twisting Torso.


Upside-Down House, Szymbark, PolandBuilt in a tiny Polish town the home attracts thousands of visitors each year. It is said that the builder took an extremely long time to complete the project, meant as a statement against communism, because work crews beacme disoriented by the strange angle while working. Many visitors report feeling a bit queasy after the tour of the home.


Walt Disney Concert Hall, Los Angeles, California


Aqua Building, Chicago , Illinois475 million dollars, 870 feet tall, 82 stories. The curved surfaces seem to undulate like the water on nearby Lake Michigan and the Chicago River. Because of the curving facade some residents have 12 foot wide balconies while others have none.


Experience Music Project, Seattle, WashingtonThis free-form wonder houses both the Experience Music Project and the Science Fistion Museum and Hall of Fame. Since opening in the year 2000 over 4.3 million people have visited.


GAS National Headquarters, Barcelona, SpainA fantastical glass structure located on the spot where Spain's first gas works was located 160 years ago.

The Grand Lisboa Hotel and Casino, Macau, ChinaVast and some say beautifully tacky, the Las Vegas spirit has swept the wide world of architecture.

COFFEY GEOTECHNICS - GEOTECHNICAL ENGINEERING / GROUND ENGINEERING

Soil, rock and water form the core foundations upon which our social and physical infrastructure is built. Specialist knowledge of these materials during the early planning phases of a project through to design and construction can ensure success - whether it's a high-rise building, a road, a tunnel or near shore structures.

At Coffey Geotechnics, we help our clients manage the earth through a range of geotechnical engineering services including ground improvement, site investigation, geotechnical interpretation, analysis and design, and construction advice.

We also provide geotechnical engineering services in geophysics, groundwater, environmental engineering and inspection and testing.

As consultants, we strive to better understand our clients' risks and constraints to help address and manage the increasing complications in today's environment with:

• increased cost, time and safety pressures
• the urbanisation of cities on marginal, difficult and poor land
• the demand for taller, deeper and more complicated projects.

Our people are dedicated to pushing the boundaries of professional knowledge to achieve extraordinary outcomes in geotechnical engineering by combining cost-effective solutions with technical excellence.

Coffey Geotechnics has been providing geotechnical engineering services to manage the earth for more than 50 years and has offices in Australia, New Zealand, Canada and the United Kingdom. This means we can draw on geotechnical specialists from around the world. These specialists work together to share their knowledge on a diverse range of ground conditions and provide a customised solution for each project.

SOIL MECHANICS

LECTURE NOTES

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LECTURE # 1

SOIL AND SOIL ENGINEERING

* The term Soil has various meanings, depending upon the general field in which it is being considered.

*To a Pedologist ... Soil is the substance existing on the earth's surface, which grows and develops plant life. 

*To a Geologist ..... Soil is the material in the relative thin surface zone within which roots occur, and all the rest of the crust is grouped under the term ROCK irrespective of its hardness. 

*To an Engineer .... Soil is the un-aggregated or un-cemented deposits of mineral and/or organic particles or fragments covering large portion of the earth's crust. 

** Soil Mechanics is one of the youngest disciplines of Civil Engineering involving the study of soil, its behavior and application as an engineering material. 

*According to Terzaghi (1948): "Soil Mechanics is the application of laws of mechanics and hydraulics to engineering problems dealing with sediments and other unconsolidated accumulations of solid particles produced by the mechanical and chemical disintegration of rocks regardless of whether or not they contain an admixture of organic constituent."

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* Geotechnical Engineering ..... Is a broader term for Soil Mechanics.

* Geotechnical Engineering contains:

- Soil Mechanics (Soil Properties and Behavior)

- Soil Dynamics (Dynamic Properties of Soils, Earthquake Engineering, Machine Foundation)

- Foundation Engineering (Deep & Shallow Foundation)

- Pavement Engineering (Flexible & Rigid Pavement)

- Rock Mechanics (Rock Stability and Tunneling)

- Geosynthetics (Soil Improvement)

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Soil Formation

* Soil material is the product of rock 

* The geological process that produce soil is

WEATHERING (Chemical and Physical). 

* Variation in Particle size and shape depends on:

- Weathering Process

- Transportation Process 

* Variation in Soil Structure Depends on:

- Soil Minerals

- Deposition Process 

* Transportation and Deposition

Four forces are usually cause the transportation and deposition of soils

1- Water ----- Alluvial Soil 1- Fluvial

2- Estuarine

3- Lacustrine

4- Coastal

5- Marine 

2- Ice ---------- Glacial Soils 1- Hard Pan

2- Terminal Moraine

3- Esker

4- Kettles 

3- Wind -------- Aeolin Soils 1- Sand Dunes

2- Loess 

4- Gravity ----- Colluvial Soil 1- Talus

What type of soils are usually produced by the different weathering & transportation process????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????

- Boulders

- Gravel Cohesionless

- Sand (Physical)

- Silt Cohesive

- Clay (Chemical) 

* These soils can be

- Dry

- Saturated - Fully

- Partially 

* Also they have different shapes and textures

我的故事

天空戀愛

音符治療晴天的余傷

屋瓦像饑渴的鍵盤伸舌

舔舐旱季最後一滴干枯

雨中你牽著吉他

走著雨季的初戀

走著雨水的寂寞

踽踽步進拒絕陽光的長廊

牛仔褲濕了

一半，心靈冷了一半

在顫抖著

一個雨天的眷戀

結束在你啟程之後，蛙鳴

才絕版

那些童年捏挪的小孩

傻笑，合雙掌

汲取雨季飄揚的情信

我的故事

望着窗口，

一阵阵的冷风朝着我的脸蛋吹来，

外面传来的又是滴滴嗒嗒的声音，

咳~ 又下雨了啦~（心里在想着）

手里不停的在转着笔，（心里不停的问自己）

眼睛专心的看着书，

难道我又有心事了吗？

明天又要向家乡离别的时候了，

啊啊啊啊啊~！！！

时间~

不留人。。。

只能把短暂的‘它’好好的收在

心里的某个角落上~

好好的藏起来，锁好‘它’

怕‘它’把‘门扇’打开，

自己溜了出去

无论我怎么气，

‘它’在我的某个角落上

是不会‘删除’掉~

如果有一天

‘它’里面的男女主角

突然离我而去

呸呸呸！！！

这是不可能的

！

因为我对他们的爱永不改变~