The 8th Wonder--The US Embassy in Baghdad


	The 8th Wonder--The US Embassy in Baghdad

tpq62

5-30-2007 12:13 PM

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iraq, bush, neocon, politics

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As the senior architect put it, "We understand how to involve the client most effectively as we direct our resources to make our client's vision a reality."

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																	Of the seven wonders of the ancient Mediterranean world, including the Hanging 
																	Gardens of Babylon and the Colossus of Rhodes, four were destroyed by 
																	earthquakes, two by fire. Only the Great Pyramid of Giza remains today.
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																	We're talking, of course, about the still-uncompleted US Embassy, the largest 
																	on the planet, being constructed on a 42-hectare stretch of land in the heart 
																	of Baghdad's embattled Green Zone, now regularly under mortar fire. As Patrick 
																	Lenahan, senior architect and project manager at BDY, has put it (according to 
																	the firm's website): "We understand how to involve the client most <IMG vspace="3" hspace="6" border="0" align="right" src="http://www.atimes.com/atimes/Middle_East/images/iraq-embassy2.gif" />
																	effectively as we direct our resources to make our client's vision a reality."
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																	other US construction project in Iraq, it is coming in on budget and on time.</blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.atimes.com/atimes/Middle_East/IE31Ak01.html">it is now estimated that being "represented" in 
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