They have distributed donated art supplies to students, and are building new studio space in two other buildings to serve displaced students until the Main Building is renovated.
Building new passive houses and renovating existing buildings to passive-house standards are tiny steps in Germany's daunting challenge to cut energy consumption as it seeks to replace nuclear power with renewable energy.
"It turns out that it is easier to put up a new building that to restore these older buildings, " said Thomas Brodsky, who is overseeing the project.
Even in Dubai, where the sky is still alarmingly full of cranes and half-finished towers, one Western bank is contemplating building a new office for itself because existing buildings are not up to scratch.
The most visible link with China for both Tanzania and Kenya is in infrastructure development, where it seems that Chinese construction companies are building all of the new roads and major buildings in the two countries.
The capital budget will be used for building projects such as repairing roads and new school buildings.
They surmised that poor construction had caused the relatively new building to tip over: no other buildings in the immediate neighborhood had suffered major damage.
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Pinetti said one thing Kimpton does is focus on renovating old buildings for its hotels rather than building new facilities.
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But the existing building stock, far outweighs the relatively small number of new buildings to be constructed in the coming years.
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In the process it would demolish two listed buildings and create a new five-storey building.
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Sony sold its U.S. headquarters building on New York's Madison Avenue in January, as well as other buildings in Tokyo.
The new buildings face the Kimbell Art Museum, the finest post-war building in Texas, and the building against which any new architecture in the state will be measured in the current museum-athon.
"To drop rents on a new, state-of-the-art building to make them comparable to buildings in Midtown that are an average of 75 years old doesn't reflect what we believe to be the immediate value of the space, " said Theresa Miller, a Prudential spokeswoman.
Strange to relate, then, that they still sit in separate buildings and will continue to do so even when Merrill moves into its new building near St Paul's Cathedral in London.
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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