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Hoover Dam (Boulder Dam)
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LOCATION |
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North America |
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Clark |
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Boulder City |
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Black Canyon |
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TYPOLOGY |
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ARCHITECTURE | Architecture of parklands and water
Dams, sluices and water structures
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CHRONOLOGY |
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Project |
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1922 - 1930
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Realisation |
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1931 - 1936 |
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AWARDS |
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| 1985 |
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| National Historic Landmark |
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BIBILIOGRAPHIC REFERENCES |
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| Casabella 680, luglio-agosto/july-august 2000, pp. 90-91 |
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| Barbara Vilander, Hoover Dam, University of Arizona Press, 1999 |
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| Antoine Picon, L'art de l'ingénieur, Éditions du Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris 1997, pp. 227-228. |
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| Joseph E. Stevens, Hoover Dam. An American Adventure, University of Oklahoma Press, Norman 1988 |
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| Donald C. Jackson, Great American Bridges and Dams, John Wiley & Sons, New York 1984, pp. 295-298. |
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base : m. 200 (ft. 660)
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| Lake Mead km² 639 (acres 157,900) |
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| water: km³ 35.200 (acre feet 28,537,000) at an elevation of m. 372.3 (ft. 1,221.4) |
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| Project leader |
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| Road Network |
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