Modern building techniques, however, often depend on teamwork and flexibility, crossing craft lines.
Near a hospital for eye diseases, is an office building for the Ministry of Higher Education, a new modern building surrounded by concrete blast walls and checkpoints, it was thought to be guarded enough.
And London is arguably a special case: the city's leases tend to be unusually long, often 25 years, which means that tenants in old offices whose leases are due to expire in the next few years may want to up sticks for a modern building.
As environmental concerns become ever more prevalent, some architects are moving away from the glass, steel and concrete model of modern city building.
Nothing is tied onto the roof, as you would in a modern thatched building but the wheat straw that we've used is knotted and then tucked into a woven framework.
One, located in the modern Nikka Kaikan building, offers free sips of select Yoichi malts.
We are finally seeing companies start to assemble complete reference architectures for building modern day enterprise platforms.
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Asked about balancing such retro hints with modern car-building necessities, McGovern doesn't flinch.
Blatter also paid tribute to the progress England had made in building modern all-seater stadia and eradicating hooliganism from the domestic game.
Those countries are home to private health care chains that target international patients and are building modern, high-tech hospitals with a reputation for quality care.
Indonesian papermaker Sinar Mas had entered India and was building a modern 100, 000-metric-ton-a-year factory for high-end coated paper.
Large stamping machines and vertical drills that date back approximately 80 years share the building with modern CNC and CAD equipment.
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After the Gulf War, Saddam began building a modern palace for himself on top of ruins in the style of a Sumerian ziggurat.
Parish officials want to knock down the buildings and replace them with modern toilets and an office building.
We'll do a very hurricane-proof building, very modern, and do something even greater.
He describes a Christie's-sponsored tour of collectors' homes in 1995 when the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art opened its new building.
"Cossham will now deliver twice as many outpatient appointments, diagnostic and therapy services as before, in a facility that has preserved the best of the old beautiful building whilst creating modern facilities inside".
"This is a great opportunity for us to address the challenges that we face with our existing brewery and to reinvigorate our business by building a new modern and efficient brewery, " Richard Bailey, Thwaites's chief executive, said.
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My name is Chandra Brown and I'm the president of United Streetcar, which is a subsidiary of Oregon Iron Works, and we are hiring, and we are building the first modern streetcar in 58 years back in this country.
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Depending on your agenda, the choices range from the private pool villas, ideal for those who prefer to sunbathe in privacy, to the more business-focused ultra-modern suites in the main building with sleek furnishings and luxe baths, with rain-drenching showers and deep-soaking tubs.
He collaborated with Mies on New York's finest modern skyscraper, the Seagram Building, before embarking on a series of big buildings of his own that followed the lead of the talented young architects he courted, encouraged and commissioned in a process of patronage and exploitation that kept him creatively alive, borrowing shamelessly from their work for the hedonistic dilettantism that became his personal style.
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Bell Labs created building blocks of the modern world--the transistor, Unix, laser breakthroughs, cellular telephony.
This detritus, man-made, earth-grown, was a kind of moat surrounding the building proper, this modern fortress, painted a yellow that was surely labelled Tuscan.
He was building fourteen houses whose modern design, heavy on stainless steel and black granite, would have looked at home in Sacramento or Atlanta.
At its core, the modern space industry is all about building and launching satellites, and that business has been lagging--largely due to the extensive infrastructure already in orbit.
The building blocks of a modern economy--bridges, roads, power lines--are at about the level of South Korea a quarter century ago, according to the Construction and Economic Research Institute of South Korea.
The modern works are seen in an adjoining building of glass and black steel by Jean Nouvel.
An array of vibrant colours and oversized, abstract characters cover Kelburn, bringing a thoroughly modern veneer to the 13th-century building.
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