In Devon, an unlawful residential building has been allowed on the site of a former milking parlour.
When completed, the building which features a Park Hyatt below the condo units will be New York's tallest residential building.
But Sageworks data shows residential building companies have experienced increased sales, and profit margins have begun improving.
The party's venue was a penthouse suite in a yet-to-open residential building in Chelsea designed by architect Annabelle Seldorf.
Called the Stadthaus, Murray Grove, it's a nine-story residential building that stands at just under 30 meters (98 feet).
Other sites going on sale include covered reservoirs, springs and areas of conservation, along with potential residential building plots.
Inside this one-time residential building is where nearly all of the Montblanc watches are made (with the exception of Montblanc Villeret watches).
Hotels consume massive amounts of energy and use 50% more energy than a similar sized residential building despite having only 55% occupancy rates on average.
At 90m (300ft), the tower is the tallest residential building in Wales and has became a landmark on the city's skyline since completion in 2009.
It was originally granted as a conversion of the milking parlour but when that fell down, a new residential building was put up in its place.
Glenigan, an outfit that tracks construction projects, predicts a gradual recovery of new private residential building, but reckons it will be slowed by scarce mortgage finance.
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Losses associated with commercial real estate, especially land development and residential building, were a major factor in the large number of U.S. bank failures since 2008.
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The new 60-room High Line Hotel, in the west Manhattan neighbourhood of Chelsea, is part of a mixed-use block that is part hotel, part Episcopal seminary and part residential building.
Overall, accounts receivable days for the residential building construction industry (NAICS code 2361) were an average of 21.6 days in 2011, compared with 15.8 days in 2010, Sageworks found.
In April the Metro Denver Economic Development Corporation had to revise its forecast due to better-than-expected gains in employment, retail sales and applications for residential building permits.
"The explosion of a residential building in Reims is a terrible drama, " the office of French President Francois Hollande said in a statement, conveying his condolences to the victims' relatives.
On July 30th, for instance, a car-bomb planted in the underground car park of an eight-storey residential building in Jerusalem exploded only partially and apparently prematurely, causing no serious damage.
The most lethal incident occurred on July 22nd, in Gaza, when an Israeli jet dropped a one-ton bomb on a residential building where the local Hamas commander, Salah Shehada, was sleeping.
There's a dizzying array of amenities at New York by Gehry, a building designed by iconic architect Frank Gehry near City Hall that is the tallest residential building in the city's history.
The developer recently confirmed that it was considering building thousands of units of modular housing, making one of the proposed high-rises, at 32 stories, the tallest prefabricated residential building in the world.
New York's 432 Park Avenue, potentially the city's tallest residential building when completed in 2016, may also be one of the city's skinniest, with a width-to-height ratio that could require more complicated dampening techniques.
REIMS, France (AP) A possible gas explosion ripped off the side of a five-story residential building in France's Champagne country on Sunday, killing at least two people and injuring at least 10 others, officials said.
Known for the elegance of his designs, Calatrava discusses the relationship between art and architecture and man's desire to build increasingly higher -- he has recently conceived the proposed Chicago Spire, soon to be the tallest residential building in the world.
In fact, the boutique's home, the former location of the Terra Museum of American Art, is scheduled to be replaced by a residential building next year, leaving Moto precious little time to do battle with the more-permanent Nokia facility across the street.
Firefighters were called Saturday to the residential building in the Pujiang area of the eastern Zhejiang province city of Jinhua to rescue a baby trapped in the L-joint of a sewage pipe just below a squat toilet in one of the building's public restrooms.
Bart Sullivan, a senior vice president at WSP Cantor Seinuk, a firm that handles engineering for buildings like One World Trade Center, says building a residential skyscraper is generally more challenging than building a tall office building, partly because residential buildings have fewer internal columns and other core structural elements.
The goal is to drive economic activity, especially residential home building, so that unemployment drops from 7.7% to 6.5%.
Red Apple owns at least 300 properties around the U.S., and has recently begun building residential high rises in Brooklyn.
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Working through grantees, it has had significant impact on promoting adoption of state and federal vehicle efficiency standards, more stringent residential and commercial building codes to reduce energy consumption, and development of renewable energy technology.
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