The Dutch parliament, or Binnenhof, which is centred around a cluster of mediaeval buildings with turrets and a moat, has a lingering problem with vermin, the paper said.

报道说，荷兰议会大厦为一幢濒临护城河的中世纪建筑，长期以来一直深受鼠害的困扰。

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Money was invented by men, and then men invented office buildings so that they could have a place to talk about their money and write amounts of money on pieces of paper and fax them to each other.

钱是由男人发明的，随后他们就发明了办公大楼，这样他们就可以有地方来讨论他们的钱，并在纸上写这些有关钱的数字，传真给对方。

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Yet the buildings were largely empty, their floors deep in drifts of shredded paper.

然而大部分建筑物早已空空如也，只是空中飘散着纸屑，地下逐渐积了厚厚的一层。

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The small pieces of paper are carefully stacked to create buildings.

VOA: special.2009.07.17

In his paper-tube buildings and accompanying sparse paper-tube furniture, the medium has attained the utmost sculptural simplicity and refinement.

ECONOMIST: Building design

Still on the drawing board, in the form of an unpublished paper, is cloaking buildings and dams from seismic waves.

BBC: Invisibility cloaks: Will we ever really have them?

In a new paper, Public Procurement and the Private Supply of Green Buildings, authors Timothy Simcoe and Michael W. Toffel show that there is, indeed, a spillover effect to the private sector.

FORBES: How Governments Spur Private-Sector Demand for Green Buildings