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...Then there’s the Olympic Village, several blocks of airy apartment buildings by the river in Seine-Saint-Denis....
...With investors eyeing double-digit rent growth in 2020-21, capital poured into metros like Miami, Austin and Phoenix, leading to huge construction booms. The hangover is here....
...He was inspired by women he sees on the Metro, “their realness, the opposite of polished and bourgeois, dressing to express yourself and be innovative”....
...The structure is a reflection on the city’s archaeology, its layering and, perhaps, as a little tribute to its Modernist metro system — Foster, having designed the Bilbao metro and the incredible Canary...
...Public prosecutors enjoy wide discretion to choose which cases they pursue....
...The surrounding area — literally, Iceland’s Quay — is a regenerated former port where the price of apartments has rocketed in recent years....
...The two other auditoriums can be combined into one vast space: “You’ll have a stage 100m [wide],” Gianotten enthuses. “Who wouldn’t want that?”...
...After all, Oklahoma City is one of the most conservative urban metro areas in the country....
...“Around me now are lots of new apartment complexes I couldn’t afford to live in. Recently in Fishtown I walked past a boutique hotel....
...The area is divided into 62 lotti, low-rise apartment blocks built around garden squares to encourage neighbourly mingling....
...She spends some time constructing a birthday card out of a Metro map and rose petals....
...“There’s this big trend [of people moving from] broadcast wide-open social media communication services to more small, intimate places,” said Citron....
...Israel said their deaths were “unintended”, saying the apartment buildings crumbled after their foundations were weakened by an air strike targeting tunnels....
...As anyone who has ever lived in suburbia knows, the real threat to domestic harmony comes not from the big wide world, but from next door....
...Job moves Metro Bank co-founder Vernon Hill has stepped down as chairman with immediate effect, as the UK challenger bank’s woes deepen. More here....
...Smart reads Church bets on Chelsea A real estate investment by the Vatican’s Secretariat of State in luxury apartments in London has landed the world’s most powerful religious organisation in hot water....
...The alleged exchange is an eye-opening detail in what lawmakers say was a wide-ranging effort by an assortment of officials and business people to influence US policy and send American nuclear technology...
...The area’s wide streets belie the daily scrums of the densely packed pedestrian road crossings at nearby Shibuya Crossing, possibly the world’s busiest intersection....
...It is with some apprehension that I greet the big-haired blonde who walks into the light-flooded Left Bank Paris apartment of François de Ricqlès, chairman of Christie’s France, for pre-lunch drinks....
...When I finally get to Shenzhen, though, there I am on a metro system that puts New York and London to shame: swift, efficient, blessedly air-conditioned, fully WiFi’d....
...$1m A 90 sq metre apartment with two bedrooms in a housing development in the northern district of Wujiaochang $2m A three-bedroom apartment in an apartment complex near Jianguo Road metro station in...
...Jakarta’s residents hope that the daily jams will be offset by public transport upgrades including projects such as a new metro line, which is currently under construction, and a new rail route linking downtown...
...Upon their arrival, wide-eyed tourists take refuge in São Paulo’s overcrowded parks, squeezed between brutalist concrete behemoths and endless high-rises....
...This is based on a view that region-wide spending on capital projects will only fall 23 per cent from a peak of $175bn in 2014 to a low of $134bn in 2017, before rising again to $154bn by 2019, as the first...
...While centralised planning has consigned most Chinese cities to unyielding grids with wide, imposing avenues, Shanghai has been spared — getting lost in its alleys, where groups of pyjama-clad pensioners...
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