The Company also involves in industrial installation, steel structure, the production of concrete, building decoration, landscape construction, railway construction and electric power businesses, among others.

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The sixth self-made female Chinese billionaire is He Qiaonv, who founded landscape architecture and interior construction firm Beijing Orient Landscape.

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Now under construction, the landscape overhaul of Governors Island will include a Hammock Grove with 50 hammocks for swinging of a gentler kind.

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Drive east and you see the same, an undulent landscape carpeted with buildings completed or under construction, roads thick with traffic, and a few forlorn patches of the original Atlantic Forest or more recently transplanted eucalyptus trees to break up the relentless jumble of concrete.

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Mr Armstrong explained that in the example of a house, money invested in its construction led directly to further spending on furnishings, architectural and landscape design and other household products.

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In a letter to the council, it said the construction would "challenge the cathedral's hitherto unrivalled supremacy in the landscape" and "sever the current close relationship of the cathedral and city to the adjacent Fens".

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Also disappeared from the landscape are the big tax-equity investors such as Lehman Brothers and hedge funds that underwrote windmill construction to capture their favorable tax credits to offset other gains.

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