New floor area under construction was up 6.3% year on year in November, after spending much of the year in negative territory.
Distrust of the GDP numbers has prompted Capital Economics, a research firm based in London, to create its own proxy of economic activity, which includes electricity output, domestic freight volumes, cargo traffic at ports, passenger transport and floor area under construction.
In terms of floor area, property construction starts increased 16% to 1.9 billion square meters in 2011, a growth rate down sharply from 42% in 2010, data released Tuesday by the National Bureau of Statistics showed.
Robert Morris's walk-in "Labyrinth" and 25-by-33-foot "Aluminum I-Beams Construction" and a floor piece by Carl Andre also fit handily, as does Claes Oldenburg's Brobdingnagian, brilliant-red "Knife Ship, " its motorized oars rowing and its knife blades rising and lowering at the gallery's far end.
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Its full 120m height is still under construction (its 19th floor is open to visitors), but thanks to its 27 floors of luxury apartments and use of sustainable architecture, it just might be the most-talked about new building in Rome since the MAXXI, built by starchitect Zaha Hadid and opened in 2010.
According to Real Estalker, the 4-floor ocean view home is still under construction and was designed with more than 14, 000-square feet of living space.
In preparation for the meeting, construction workers built an elevated floor to make a level surface and covered the windows so no one could get a glimpse of the meeting.
The MAGNET center will not require new construction but will occupy eighth-floor space in Brooklyn's MetroTech Center, a 1990s office park.
Several hundred invited guests, all wearing the blue hard hats, took construction elevators up to a top floor to stare out over the turquoise water, sip similarly colored cocktails and hear a speech or five.
The pace of real-estate construction is still slowing: new residential floor space fell 8.2% year-on-year in the first five months of 2012.
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As the floor plan and list of outrageous amenities ballooned during construction, however, Kurtz and his wife decided it outsized their needs.
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While that program is riddled with problems, ranging from phony reporting to substandard construction, it appears to have put a floor under the real-estate market, analysts say.
One of them was on display when I visited the Storyscapes space, which was still very much under construction Tuesday evening, at the seventh-floor Bombay Sapphire House of Imagination on 121 Varick St.
It followed an incident on 14 January 2011, when two construction workers were potentially exposed to asbestos when repairing a floor.
Mohawk Industries, Inc. is engaged in the production and sale of floor covering products for residential and commercial markets for remodeling and new construction primarily in the United States and Europe.
Unibody construction, in which a vehicle's roof, door frames and floor pan are part of a unified, rigid structure, has made vehicles lighter and stiffer.
Rochelle Slovin, Director of Museum of the Moving Image, today announced the opening date of the transformed Museum and presented an update on the progress of construction of Leeser Architecture's innovative design, which thoroughly reimagines the ground floor of the existing building and provides a remarkable three-story addition.
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On Tuesday, construction materials littered the front lawn of the house and plastic tubing snaked down from the top floor to a cargo container.
Buildings will be of "modular demountable construction", so they can be rapidly built or rebuilt, and there will be a raised floor throughout the Dome to conceal the formidable cables associated with the Dome's energy and IT systems.
But wander over to the corner of the studio and behold a large computer annex that looks almost like a trading floor--it's part of Gehry Technologies, a separate 60-employee company that oversees design and construction processes for Gehry and outside clients.
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