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...When Lord & Taylor’s century-old flagship store on Fifth Avenue was designated a New York landmark in 2007, the city’s landmark preservation commission called it “a recognised innovator in the history of...
...Could the same happen in New York or Crystal City? “Amazon” Cuomo et al will hope not....
...A Rs12.75bn loan from India’s Housing and Urban Development Corp was sanctioned in December 2017 to fund tier 1 infrastructure in Amaravati....
...To help deal with a shortage of affordable housing, policymakers in urban centres including New York give developers tax breaks if they reserve some units for lower-income residents....
...WeWork has even bought the flagship New York store of 191-year-old department store chain Lord & Taylor, which will be renting floors from WeWork from the new year....
...The wonderful drawing, included in the V&A exhibition, of his Finnish Pavilion at the 1939 New York World’s Fair illustrates how instrumental Aalto was in transforming expectations and perceptions of plywood...
...The United Nations headquarters in New York, the buildings of Brasilia, the monolithic downtown slabs of the corporate US, all were fronted by an urban space to show off the new architecture....
...Noble Francis, economics director, Construction Products Association The new fiscal rules provide more headroom and we have already seen further announcements of capital investment in the form of the National...
...We’re funding the new Royce Institute in Manchester, and new agri-tech centres in Shropshire, York, Bedfordshire and Edinburgh....
...The Department of Justice and Department of Housing and Urban Development are adding provisions aimed at directing aid to distressed areas and community redevelopment efforts as they resolve outstanding...
...Many of these projects have already won federal grant competitions, such as the US Department of Housing and Urban Development’s Rebuild by Design contest, which allocated $920m in disaster relief funds...
...The city has had a vacancy rate of less than 5 per cent since the Department of Housing Preservation and Development began keeping track 40 years ago, which means New York has been in a “housing emergency...
...In late 2009, five years after Kangbashi’s construction began, an Al Jazeera English reporter visited and found the city all but devoid of people. She called it a “ghost town” in her dispatch....
...We should follow the example of a New York City nurse named Menchu Sanchez....
...Department of Energy data confirms that New York State’s per capita energy consumption is next to last in the country, which largely reflects public transit use in New York City....
...There’s never been a better time to build, especially since the construction industry was one of the hardest-hit when the housing bubble burst....
...that construction of some 200 temporary housing units started on Saturday in the coastal city of Rikuzentakata in Iwate Prefecture, which was severely damaged after the earthquake and tsunami. 0156 – NEW...
...One of his buildings, a department store with atrium, became City Hall and his firm picked up many residential commissions in Riverside and Avondale....
...Lib Dems in local government who face electoral disaster because of the growing unpopularity of Clegg, Cable et al at a national level....
...New Gourna Village, Luxor, West Bank, Egypt In 1945 Egypt’s Department of Antiquities commissioned Hassan Fathy, the renowned architect, to design and construct a new settlement, New Gourna Village, on the...
...With most states bleeding workers, North Dakota wants more investments such as Mr Al-Katib’s, and has begun aggressive recruiting campaigns in cities such as Detroit, Chicago, Denver and Minneapolis....
...Uncle By JP Martin New York Review, £9.99 Uncle is a rich elephant who rules a skyscraper city and lives a life of complacent ease – or at least he would do if the subversive Beaver Hateman would stop his...
...consumers, the Fannie Mae Corporation is easing the credit requirements on loans that it will purchase from banks and other lenders… Earlier that summer, in July, the Department of Housing and Urban Development...
...Disclosure in January of Washington’s $20bn rescue package sparked a series of investigations, by the New York attorney-general, the Securities and Exchange Commission and a congressional committee....
...The city is also ready to step out of New York’s artistic shadow....
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