In March 2011, Shanghai is hosting the 4th Annual Ultra-High-rise Building Summit -- which extols the merits of high-rise construction.
Mr. Tourre resides in a high-rise building overlooking Lake Michigan and Chicago's stately Field Museum.
Genetically modified versions of the organism can produce butanol and propanol, two high-energy building blocks for transportation fuels.
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Lakanal House was a "high-risk building", Mr Walker said, but no valid fire risk assessment was in place when the fire broke out.
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"It's not cheap, but the location is good, " she says of the apartment in a high-rise building in a residential district north of the Shanghai Bund.
Once a potent symbol of American frustration with the Vietnam War, the prison is now a tourist attraction, in the shadow of an upscale high-rise building owned by a Singapore businessman.
Meanwhile, Samsung had, tortoise-like, been building high-quality gadgets at good prices.
Equity International began investing four years ago in Gafisa (nyse: GFA - news - people ), which began building high-end homes but has expanded down-market.
When it comes to custom-made, high-tech home building, prefabricated home systems can be a boon.
Dhingra said he won't consider working in a high-rise office building again.
"Everybody's home would produce more taxes as a Costco or a high-rise office building, " Institute for Justice attorney Dana Berliner tartly observes.
Morgan Asset Management, for example, lost a high-end apartment building in the Chinese city of Dalian to foreclosure last summer after sluggish sales put the firm in violation of loan covenants.
Is it my imagination or did the rise of expense-account restaurants purposely building-in conversation-evaporating high-volume noise levels (partly by not building in the architectural elements that muffle them) coincide with the market run-up to 2008?
Yet as suburban construction ended, cities continued building high-density urban housing--sometimes encouraged by city subsidies.
Equity International began investing four years ago in Gafisa, which began building high-end homes but has expanded down-market.
Without lowering our minimum hiring standards, we needed to identify those applicants with a high level of relationship-building skills.
Peel's Liverpool Waters plan includes building high-rise buildings housing offices, shops and up to 14, 000 apartments on an area of disused land.
"Travelodge has an important role in international markets, like Spain, which are building high-demand for the no-frills approach, " said chief executive Grant Hearn.
"We are on the cusp, really, of that full-speed rebuild, " he said from the high-rise city council building near the downtown disaster area.
The U.S. venture capital (VC) industry has traditionally played an important role by providing guidance and risk capital required for building high-growth companies.
In the past, and the present, places have competed for smart, high-skilled newcomers by building impressive physical infrastructure and offering incentives and inducements for companies or individuals.
Some countries are building high-speed railroads and expanding broadband access.
"From that point on, we decided our product development and engineering teams needed to be completely focused on what we do best and that's building high-performance loudspeakers, " he noted.
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In these places, construction is held back by slow-growing (Providence, Long Island) or declining (Detroit) populations or by already-high densities and building restrictions that leave fewer options for new construction (Orange County, CA).
We are now building high-speed wireless data networks around the world, so people will be connected without going back to the office, wherever they take their devices--voice, data and e-mail--in every possible situation.
They're building high-speed railroads and expanding broadband.
"Even in a strong economy, building high-speed rail makes little sense, offering minimal reductions in travel times at exorbitant costs, " said Ronald Utt, who is the Herbert and Joyce Morgan senior research fellow for the Thomas A. Roe Institute for Economic Policy Studies at the Heritage Foundation.
Because of this investment, nearly 400, 000 men and women will go to work rebuilding our crumbling roads and bridges, repairing our faulty dams and levees, bringing critical broadband connections to businesses and homes in nearly every community in America, upgrading mass transit and building high-speed rail lines that will improve travel and commerce throughout the nation.
His Metropole Hotel, whose interior fittings still feature a Sassoon family emblem with its two greyhounds, rises at a nearby intersection -- across from its twin, Hamilton House, built by Sir Victor as a hybrid office building and high-rise apartment house.
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