All buildings will show up in pretty good 3D in the new Google Earth.
In their detailed grid of streets and low-rise buildings, they show the Hudson, the harbor and even the Long Island Sound stretching far into the distance and teeming with steam and sailing craft.
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Atlantic Yards' new plans show residential buildings that seem to be doing their best to hold their tongues, make nothing more than the blandest statement possible, and pray dearly not to offend the sensibility that has made Brooklyn so attractive to new residents in the past few decades.
Buildings near Juyuan Middle School show few visible signs of earthquake damage.
Though some of the archaeology had been damaged by the market's construction in the 1800s enough remained to show evidence of buildings on the site as well as a large amount of pottery and various other items such as intaglio gemstones used in jewellery.
Still, Sunny is playing diplomat to leaders of tenant groups and bringing residents into his boardroom to show them models of apartment buildings.
As companies rethink their offices, many are looking into "smart buildings, " wired with technologies that show workers' location in real time and suggest meetings with colleagues nearby.
What began with a decline in upstate urban districts has spread into suburban and rural districts, statistics show, forcing administrators to mothball buildings and explore not only team, but entire district, mergers.
The system features onboard 3D navigation with city models that show realistic and beautifully rendered 3D representations of buildings for better orientation.
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In his book he sets out to show how the rich and powerful have used buildings - including monuments - to project their power or influence on to the rest of us.
In a new paper, Public Procurement and the Private Supply of Green Buildings, authors Timothy Simcoe and Michael W. Toffel show that there is, indeed, a spillover effect to the private sector.
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Across the country, special fares were on offer in operation on public transport, exhibitions will show the effect of pollution on people and buildings, and new non-polluting types of transport will be on display.
Official figures show investment by the private sector in fixed assets such as factory buildings and machinery grew nearly threefold between 2000 and 2005 (see chart).
But projects such as the Bahnstadt show the energy revolution and European efficiency goals "have put very low energy buildings much more strongly in investors' focus, " said Stephan Sperl, a spokesman for German state lender KfW Bankengruppe, which offers low-interest construction loans for energy-efficient residential buildings.
The pictures, taken in the last two days, show dirty bathrooms, animal footprints on beds, exposed wiring and flooding outside the buildings.
"Camouflage nets baffle the Hun, " declared a British poster on show but vast nets were only part of it: at Tobruk, the British would decorate strategic buildings with fake shell-holes and rubble to make them look as if they had been bombed in air raids.
In the fall, Judge Scheindlin presided over a hearing during which lawyers for the New York Civil Liberties Union and several legal and community groups attempted to show that police mistakenly believe the program gives them license to automatically detain anyone leaving or outside participating buildings.
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