Most of the space taken up in 1998 represented relocations from villas to modern buildings.
Why did so many modern buildings come crashing down including several schools, crushing the pupils inside them?
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Pittsburgh is an exceptionally appealing contrast of attractive modern buildings in a rich historical setting.
In the modern buildings on the north bank, armed Serbs refuse to let displaced Albanians back home.
But other members of the family, who live in Nashville, think more modern buildings are just what Memphis needs.
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Following the market's heyday as a location for entertainment companies from the 1930s through the 1950s, many firms relocated to larger and more modern buildings in Burbank and elsewhere.
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But analysts think they may only be scratching the surface, given the enormous business opportunities associated with road improvements, new bridges and modern buildings around the world, particularly in Asia.
Stocked with architectural gems, including Art Deco and Miami Modern buildings, the city wanted to ensure that its parking structures "became urban assets rather than urban albatrosses, " Mr. Cary says.
The designers sought to revive the memory of the area by demolishing modern buildings and insulating the remaining buildings against extreme heat with traditional methods using locally sourced wood and bamboo imported from Asia.
They still smack of the Manhattan-style modern buildings that have been popping up in nearby downtown Brooklyn ever since developers have realized that many of the city's well-heeled jet set live across the East River.
Ben Cerveny and Liz Magic Laser had explored how architectural features of Gothic black-and-white horror movies doors opening on their own, eyes following us, stairs moving have been reinvented as technological features of modern buildings.
Colonial Mutual Life, one of Australia's oldest insurance companies, bought the site on which the eyesores stand at the height of a property boom in the late 1980s and pulled down a strip of crude, modern buildings.
In her mind, she holds an alternative map of the centre of the city: one which, instead of modern buildings and highways crowded with traffic, has ancient walls, baths and residences dating back to Roman, Hellenistic and even prehistoric times.
It already houses a free-trade zone with warehouses, modern office buildings, and even an airport.
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Modern concrete buildings had also collapsed or showed signs of serious damage.
How modern these buildings must have looked then, and how dowdy now.
Currently one of the highest modern wooden buildings is in London.
Architect Sir Norman Foster elegantly combined a refurbished British-era military structure surrounded by manicured green lawns with curved, metal-clad modern hotel buildings and villas that tumble down a hillside to the South China Sea.
Modern, permanent buildings with finished rooftops begin to fade.
Adapting old buildings to modern standards of hygiene and privacy is particularly expensive because of rules aimed at preserving historic architecture.
Although some of the improvements in public services the government has promised will come from new buildings and modern equipment, most of it will depend on retaining good people, persuading them to work more efficiently and recruiting more like them.
But the real challenge is renovating existing buildings to add modern levels of insulation.
The area which can be opened up is restricted by standing buildings and a modern road, which crosses the site.
It occupies a very handsome building designed by architect Howard Backen, who has created a modern vernacular of Napa Valley rural buildings.
Parish officials want to knock down the buildings and replace them with modern toilets and an office building.
"Due to the prominent siting of the advertisement within the Kensington Place conservation area, its elevated position on the buildings and its use of modern and incongruous materials the proposal fails to preserve or enhance the architectural of historic character and appearance of the conservation area and the appearance of the building and represents an unduly dominant and obtrusive advertisement, " the council said.
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Mr. Lichter, president of Industrial Realty Group LLC, is planning to convert the 1.7 million-square-foot hodgepodge of brick and concrete buildings into hotel rooms, housing, modern office space and other uses.
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More significantly, after a battle over saving a number of turn-of-the-century Chicago buildings, the city moved to protect several modern masterpieces including Mies's apartment blocks.
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