By digging underground and building a 2, 748-square-foot basement, which is excluded from the square-foot limit, Ms. Sandberg and Mr. Goldberg were able to get to 9, 210 square feet and keep much of the house from public view.
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More to the point, if science fiction is any guide, building underground cities is usually a bad idea.
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Building underground is no easy task, especially the deeper you go.
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The building of underground submarine pens on Hainan Island, which can house both strategic and nuclear-attack submarines, cannot go unnoticed.
Union leaders have called for a "full and proper" investigation into the possibility of building an underground nuclear waste site in Cumbria.
Royce applied the same problem solving that has served his funds so well: Parking was addressed by building an underground lot, and guests are asked to move inside from the wraparound veranda at 10 p.m.
Storage space for up to 8m volumes is tucked into the building's underground recesses.
The Americans now claim to have evidence that North Korea may be breaking the agreement, by building a giant underground complex that they believe is nuclear-related.
In Nice the EasyRentacar "office" is a simple desk in an office building's underused underground parking lot, a ten-minute walk from the airport.
The endless layout includes more than 50 bedrooms, a series of intimate drawing rooms and a regally appointed dining room with an underground passage to a separate kitchen building.
At NYU Langone, officials will consider waterproofing strategies for one building that houses mice underground and they are working on "an aggressive evacuation plan, " said Dafna Bar-Sagi, the center's vice dean for science.
The proposed building would descend 35 stories underground, which green space and as much natural light as possible.
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In this very building, deep in the underground vaults, sits billions of dollars of gold, held by the Federal Reserve for foreign governments.
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Faticanti said they were talking to engineers in Abu Dhabi about the possibility of creating a well to reach the underground water table in the center of the building, and using it to create a green oasis of gardens.
Tons of gold and silver had been stored in underground vaults beneath 4 World Trade Center when the building collapsed September 11.
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.
Chicago is a city of different levels - the tallest building in the US, street level, and underground roads.
On Thursday he carried the components of a fake bomb into the building in a black shoulder bag, via the underground station entrance.
Mr. Blankfein was escorted in and out of the building by federal agents, who drove him out of an underground garage at the courthouse.
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Members of a big underground (ie, non-state) church in Beijing, stopped from meeting in their usual building, were arrested as they tried to worship outside.
At the same time, they built an entirely new building behind the palace, and the hotel occupies both edifices, which are connected both by an underground passage and a private walled park-like plaza.
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This is a building that has until now been rather more impressive from the outside, but the opening of the underground sections means that visitors will be able to envisage the entertainments held here from a new, if chilling perspective.
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