We cannot, however, say that just because people are building taller buildings we must be in a credit bubble.
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It also boasted a grand civic centre, created after the marquess of Bute sold 24 hectares of land to the city for the building of public buildings in 1897.
The multiplayer element was also essential for other aspects of the game, including the building of historic buildings and landmarks and to help players cope with world events and challenges.
Bart Sullivan, a senior vice president at WSP Cantor Seinuk, a firm that handles engineering for buildings like One World Trade Center, says building a residential skyscraper is generally more challenging than building a tall office building, partly because residential buildings have fewer internal columns and other core structural elements.
Sullivan was able to identify taxpayers as filing from the Helmsley Building because some office buildings have their own ZIP codes.
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Peel's Liverpool Waters plan includes building high-rise buildings housing offices, shops and up to 14, 000 apartments on an area of disused land.
Army units, meanwhile, took control of the main Suez Canal administration building, provincial government buildings, banks and courts in Port Said, Gen.
He also said developers have the option of rebuilding aging buildings or building in nearby office districts outside city limits with less-restrictive height limits.
They have been sited at the authentic French chateau-styled Yates building, the 1874 Victoria Building with its Italianesque style, the former NatWest Bank building and the Chaucer buildings.
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In the nervous reaction to the World Trade Center buildings coming down, building standards were amended to provide for better fire proofing and an additional stairwell for tall buildings.
Earlier this year the Theatres Trust put the building on its "Theatre Buildings at Risk" register.
The building was actually three small buildings that over the years had been joined together with a hodge-podge of exteriors and varying degrees of obvious wear and tear.
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"This is a vehicle to be able to build taller buildings, bigger building and to be competitive with the rest of the world, " said Steven Spinola, president of the Real Estate Board of New York.
The state-of-the-art building will sit between two Victorian buildings, the B-listed Dunfermline Carnegie Library and a B-listed former bank.
"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.
The FBI is asking architects and building engineers across the country to report any suspicious requests for building plans, especially for federal buildings and projects, according to two industry groups.
China Youth Daily says the country must learn from Japan's earthquake-resistant building designs after almost all the buildings in Baoxing county in Ya'an, including newer earthquake-proof houses, were badly damaged in the quake.
LEED, or Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design, is program administered by the U.S. Green Building Council that awards points for buildings that incorporate various energy efficiency and water conservation features as well as providing such things as bike racks.
"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.
Not only was she the owner of this building, but a number of other buildings as well.
Gale has come under fire for building lucrative residential units before commercial lease buildings.
The reactor vessels remained intact as did the reinforced concrete containment buildings, but each reactor building lost its hat due to the hydrogen explosions.
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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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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.
Mr Black also called on the Welsh Government to make representations to the UK government to reduce the rate of VAT on building repairs and improvement work to existing buildings from 20% to 5%.
Pinetti said one thing Kimpton does is focus on renovating old buildings for its hotels rather than building new facilities.
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Two years ago India's urban-development ministry published a report calling for states to upgrade building codes and promote the strengthening of existing buildings.
The next area where solar may make huge gains is integration into the skin of buildings, what is know as Building Integrated Photovoltaics, or BIPV.
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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.
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