By now, most customers pretty much know what to expect when they enter through the heavy glass door, small green letters hanging overhead on the building exterior.
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Shares in the Chinese building exterior and interior designer led by Beijing billionaire Liu Zaiwang edged up by 0.2% on Thursday after the company posted a big rise in 2012 net profit.
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The open workspace design of the building brings exterior views to 90 percent of employee work spaces, and the coated windows help regulate the interior temperature without boosting energy costs.
Apart from a sign in Arabic, Bengali and English, the building's exterior looks much the same as ever.
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Commission, has authority over everything from the colour of a building's exterior to the kind of business allowed inside.
Ms. Thompson also opened up the home's interiors by replacing sections of the building's exterior brick walls with mahogany-framed panels of floor-to-ceiling glass.
Landmark protection covers the building's exterior and entrance and exhibition hall.
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At the U.S. Capitol, "there have been increased foot patrols, exterior building checks and the strategic placement of personnel, all cautionary while the intelligence community measures the possibility of anti-American response, " Senate Sergeant at Arms Terry Gainer said via e-mail.
According to the Associated Press news agency, the fire spread quickly because construction workers had recently applied a flammable wood preservative to the exterior of the building.
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Tim Green of architects Capital Architecture said the exterior of the building was designed to be in keeping with the existing Wales Millennium Centre while the interior had a theme all of its own.
Police have arrested the owners of the five garment factories based in Rana Plaza for allegedly endangering employees by forcing them back to work a day after a crack emerged on the exterior of the building.
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Police have also arrested the owners of the five garment factories based in Rana Plaza for allegedly endangering employees by forcing them back to work a day after a crack emerged on the exterior of the building.
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The sharp exterior corners of the building resemble the prow of a ship.
Meanwhile, the Refinery Hotel, located in a former hat factory in the Garment District, has suffused its design with nods both to the millinery and the building's Neo-Gothic exterior.
The restoration work included reinstating the 40ft (12m) lantern, restoring the exterior, strengthening the building with a new steel core, and installing new staircases and an exhibition space with access to a viewing platform.
The new building's sleek three-story exterior reflected the sunlight, its irregularly spaced glass panels suggesting contrapuntal rhythms against a steady beat of steel.
C. is a building that graces Pennsylvania Avenue with an exterior engraved with the First Amendment to the Constitution and its guarantee of, among other liberties, freedom of speech.
The credit is 10% of the cost of the building materials (labor excluded) for insulation, exterior windows and doors that meet Energy Star requirements, and roofs (metal roofs with pigmented coating, or asphalt roofs with cooling granules).
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The 367-room Parkroyal on Pickering, which opened in January, is draped in layers of lush greenery that cascade from garden and pool terraces at various levels of the 16-storey building, creating a striking, contoured rice paddy-like exterior.
Authorities had ordered the arrest of owners of factories in the building, after allegations they forced workers to return to the building on Wednesday despite safety concerns after a crack emerged on an exterior wall.
The building teams continue adding icicles throughout the season to replenish melt-off and keep the exterior looking fresh.
Still, some details on the project such as what type of exterior material to use are subject to change from the green glassy building outlined initially by Mr. Portzamparc, and members of Community Board 7 shown preliminary designs by Dermot said the new design appeared more boxy.
The exterior worked better than the interior, in terms of the exhibits as opposed to the building.
In 2007 Wymering Manor was granted permission for use as a hotel but any buyer would need listed building consent in addition to planning permission for any alterations, extensions or demolition works to its interior or exterior.
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