Once the work is completed, the heritage trust hopes to create a new 971 square metre exhibition space, allowing the museum to display some of the large industrial objects in its reserve collections for the first time.
Culture Minister Aurelie Filippetti said she owned a 70-square-metre (750-square-foot) flat in Paris, adding more light-heartedly that she also possessed a David Beckham T-shirt.
Russian buildings leak energy like sieves: they use 425 kilowatt-hours per square metre a year, compared with 135 in Sweden and 120 in the United States.
They recommend a minimum floor area per bird, in enclosed housing, of 0.026 square metres per kilogram - a maximum stocking density of 40kg per square metre.
The city has the greatest number of teams (about 400), all non-paid and voluntary, and the most races (more than 20 a year) in the world per square metre.
The 740, 000 square-foot (69, 000 square-metre) building has a 1, 960 foot long main assembly floor, with a railway line running through the door handy if you are making locomotives.
I-mod pixels measure a mere 30 microns by 40 microns (a micron is a millionth of a metre), more than 80, 000 of them could fit in a square centimetre.
But nowhere has Congress's penchant for inefficiency been more manifest than in the new Capitol Visitor Centre, a 580, 000 square foot (54, 000 square metre) subterranean hall lined in white marble, which has just opened next to the Capitol itself.
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Following his arrest in Oaxaca last year, Habacuc Cruz Cruz, a union organiser in the state, says that he was severely beaten and kept for three to eight days at a time in a tiny cell without light or ventilation, which measured just one square metre.
The average cost of a three-bedroom apartment in the city centre is 9, 000 renminbi per square metre.
This is a place wrapped in legends of feudal chivalry and romance, one that packs more history into every square metre than many better-known places, including Agra and Udaipur.
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