And London is arguably a special case: the city's leases tend to be unusually long, often 25 years, which means that tenants in old offices whose leases are due to expire in the next few years may want to up sticks for a modern building.
Near a hospital for eye diseases, is an office building for the Ministry of Higher Education, a new modern building surrounded by concrete blast walls and checkpoints, it was thought to be guarded enough.
F-Secure sits at the end of a dead-end road, in a modern white building with cameras on the watch outside.
Nothing is tied onto the roof, as you would in a modern thatched building but the wheat straw that we've used is knotted and then tucked into a woven framework.
"With a lack of political reform, one can hardly say that the Chinese Communists' foundation for building a modern Chinese state are consolidated, " Hong Kong Economic Journal comments.
Indonesian papermaker Sinar Mas had entered India and was building a modern 100, 000-metric-ton-a-year factory for high-end coated paper.
It is building a modern navy and air force, upgrading its nuclear-armed ICBM force and beginning to operate in a power-projection mode.
After the Gulf War, Saddam began building a modern palace for himself on top of ruins in the style of a Sumerian ziggurat.
They were restored and reinvigorated as Albania emerged from communism and committed itself to building a modern, democratic state, firmly anchored in the Euro-Atlantic community.
Israel's success in building a modern economy within a democratic setting holds a mirror to the Arab-Muslim world's abject failure to meet demands of the modern world with reasonableness.
Infrastructure is a primary focus of the current regime, as the government understands that attracting more foreign investment requires building a more modern network to move people and goods around.
Located in a 17th-century building, Belle Arti Resort is a modern boutique hotel with arty, period features.
"This is a great opportunity for us to address the challenges that we face with our existing brewery and to reinvigorate our business by building a new modern and efficient brewery, " Richard Bailey, Thwaites's chief executive, said.
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This detritus, man-made, earth-grown, was a kind of moat surrounding the building proper, this modern fortress, painted a yellow that was surely labelled Tuscan.
The building blocks of a modern economy--bridges, roads, power lines--are at about the level of South Korea a quarter century ago, according to the Construction and Economic Research Institute of South Korea.
It occupies a very handsome building designed by architect Howard Backen, who has created a modern vernacular of Napa Valley rural buildings.
"It will further enable the transition of the local economy from one of traditional industries, such as agriculture, to a modern, high technology based economy, building on strong existing foundations".
With the optimism, energy and determination characteristic of its people, Kosovo has made significant progress in solidifying the gains of independence and in building the institutions of a modern, multi-ethnic, inclusive and democratic state.
"With the optimism, energy and determination characteristic of its people, Kosovo has made significant progress in solidifying the gains of independence and in building the institutions of a modern, multi-ethnic, inclusive and democratic state, " he said.
An array of vibrant colours and oversized, abstract characters cover Kelburn, bringing a thoroughly modern veneer to the 13th-century building.
We'll do a very hurricane-proof building, very modern, and do something even greater.
Mr Snelling said the upgrade would give the "aging building" a "fresher, more modern approach" as it faces increased competition.
Those countries are home to private health care chains that target international patients and are building modern, high-tech hospitals with a reputation for quality care.
In a few paragraphs, Obama tied the ideals of the American Revolution to the notion of cooperative rather than individual action, and to its role in the building of the modern state, which is a bulwark against chaos.
The new building, described by the council as being of a modern design with "a succession of cube-like shapes superimposed on each other", would cover a wider area - including some Metropolitan Open Land.
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To sell the Baccarat Residences, a 50-story glass condominium tower under construction across from the Museum of Modern Art in midtown Manhattan, a model set up in the building's showroom includes striking materials like lacquered ziricote-wood walls and a crackled bronze sculptural wall embedded with tiny pieces of glass made by a British artist.
He collaborated with Mies on New York's finest modern skyscraper, the Seagram Building, before embarking on a series of big buildings of his own that followed the lead of the talented young architects he courted, encouraged and commissioned in a process of patronage and exploitation that kept him creatively alive, borrowing shamelessly from their work for the hedonistic dilettantism that became his personal style.
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We are working to protect our nation by building the surest foundation of peace a strong, capable and modern military.
To see how Hartmann plans to meet these challenges, we called on him in his spacious office atop Veba's modern steel-and-black-marble headquarters building in a quiet Dsseldorf neighborhood.
And he added that it would be dedicated to advancing modern Olympics founder Pierre de Coubertin's vision of building a better world through sport, culture, education, health and environment initiatives.
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