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Balco Metalines |
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The New World Leader in Specialty Building Product Innovation |
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expansion joint systems, fire blankets, ornamental trench covers, decorative |
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grates, stair safety nosings, wall and corner guards |
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Innovative and Creative - Balco engineers |
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designed a custom trench grating product to |
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enhance the creation of this remarkable effect. |
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From across America, thousands |
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came together on April 19 to dedicate |
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the Oklahoma City National |
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Memorial, with special tributes |
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delivered by President Bill Clinton |
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and Attorney General Janet Reno. |
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The monument's design was the vision of the |
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architectural firm of Butzer Design Partnership |
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of Cambridge Massachusetts. The partners |
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Hans Ekkehard Butzer, Torrey Butzer, and |
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Sven Berg have transformed the former |
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site of the Alfred P. Murrah building into |
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one of tranquility and reflection. |
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Visitors are quickly drawn to the large |
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reflecting pool, framed by 30-foot-tall bronze |
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gates, an interactive museum, and 168 |
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memorial chairs. The pool, which stretches 320- |
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feet long but is only 3/4" deep, has the |
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appearance of no water coming in or out, |
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but rather simply suspended in space. |
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Balco engineers designed custom trench |
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grating product to enhance the creation |
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of this remarkable effect. |
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Dark stone lines the pool, "making it difficult to see |
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the bottom but easy to see reflections |
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of things not there, " the architects |
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said in their entry statement, "a place |
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that leaves people with hope." |
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