One technology highlighted by NASA is solid freeform fabrication, a process that could be used to support fabrication and repair of large space structures, spacecraft primary structure and replacement components.

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Space-worthy inflatable structures have been around since the 1960s and are lightweight, compact in transit and easy to assemble on landing.

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So far, he has purchased 15 buildings, totaling 2.6 million square feet of commercial space, and three parking structures for a combined 3, 500 parking spaces.

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It opened in 1901 in a single small building and now is a complex of structures with 28 acres of floor space.

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How about the city government designates a set of aesthetically valuable historic buildings and then lets the rest of the land be filled with tall modern structures to meet the demand for space?

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But they also reveal Bulfinch's own prophetic sense of the massive volumes of space and stone that would define later neoclassicism, exemplified in the structures designed by Robert Mills for the nation's capital and in the South.

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Investment in nonresidential structures (such as office buildings, factories, and retail space) should also continue to expand, although not at the unusually rapid pace of 2006.

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