At the first building, Spencer was urged to take some business classes.
Still in its original location at 400 Oxford Street it was the first building in the country to use a steel frame construction.
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While the Boxpark may be the first "pop-up" shopping mall made from shipping containers, it's certainly not the first building project to capitalize on their structural appeal.
It was the first building to use Cor-Ten steel, a material that weathers and changes color over time, and it is his most completely resolved and expertly detailed and executed design.
One of the commanders of the British intervention force told me in 2000 his project was "to build the country back up, starting with the government army as the first building block".
The first building will feature about 17, 000 square feet of ground-floor space for businesses like cafes, delis and banks and 91 rental units on the upper four stories, with apartments designated for residents of various incomes.
Meanwhile, at downtown's rival office neighborhood, Hudson Yards, on the Far West Side, the first building broke ground in December, at a ceremony where developer Stephen Ross beamed, flanked by the city's heavyweights in business and politics.
According to Downtown Cincinnati Inc's annual report, the downtown residential population increased 12% in 2011 from a year earlier to 13, 000 residents as more housing came online, most notably at the first building of the Banks, where 300 rental units boasted a 98% occupancy upon officially opening.
After almost 10 years of contentious wrangling between the community and developer Forest City Ratner, the first completed building in the Atlantic Yards megadevelopment opened in September.
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The Queen's House (by Inigo Jones) was the first Palladian building in England and the park contains the Old Royal Observatory, the work of Christopher Wren and the scientist Robert Hooke.
Magalhaes was one of the first to exit the building, and admits that she felt she was overreacting at first by screaming and running out.
Critics who long for great architecture are unlikely to be appeased by the design of the first apartment building.
The drop-in session will be held on 8 November at the Communities First Building, Bridge Street, Llangefni, from 16:00 - 20:00 GMT.
They've even let a new member into the club: The Peninsula Shanghai hotel, which bookends the northern curve of the Bund, was the first new building here in six decades.
Its City Council House 2, with windows that open at night to take in air that cools the interior by day, was the first public building in Australia to get a six-star green rating.
So he looks at this in a more holistic way, and he will move forward in implementing some of the actions that he took in the first term, and building on the progress that was made in the first term.
"This explosion... generated an effect on the structures of the floors of the building, first pushing them up and then causing them to fall, and that was the primary cause of deaths in the building, " he said.
Ms Davidson said the 67p rent rise was needed to help fund the first phase of the building programme.
She was trapped somewhere on the first floor of the building, and it was difficult and dangerous for the rescuers to reach her.
State police and FBI tactical teams entered the first floor of the abandoned building around 8 a.m.
Offices on the southeast corner of the Hart building between the first and eighth floors were closed for testing, according to a written statement from the Capitol physician.
But the strongmen and sword swallowers who perform at the Coney Island Circus Sideshow will be out of work until May 24, when owner Dick Zigun is able to open the first floor of the landmark building that houses it as well as a bar, gift shop and dressing room destroyed by Sandy.
The first cycle and building was in Colombo, Sri Lanka, where it has been adjudged the best slum housing scheme done in the country ever and the only one where people came voluntarily and still demand more.
Now, the first step in building a new foundation that allows us to move forward has been to address the costs and risks that have made our economy less competitive -- outdated regulations, crushing health care costs, and a growing debt.
Lord's Media Center, the first all-aluminum building in the world, won a host of awards, including the Stirling Prize, Britain's most prestigious architectural prize, in 1999.
More than 1, 500 names have been added to the wait list to purchase the Bia watch and the women are hard at work building the first ten prototypes with hopes of a Q1 2013 launch.
It means that the euro will have to wait until the dollar falls before it strengthens, which will come, but that is the price of constructing a single currency without first building the culture, institutions and political base to support it more directly.
The roof was destroyed in the blaze and a large part of the ground and first floors of the building was damaged by the fire.
The inventory-building in the first quarter of this year was responsible for 67% of the 3.7% annual rate rise in real GDP and 36% of the rise of 1.6% in the second quarter.
At the back of the building on the first floor, parts dept. lorries were unloaded fortnightly with car parts brought down from BMC Birmingham, these included everything from engines, body panels, exhausts to spare bulbs.
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