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Like its competitors, BMW knows that cool sells. And there is no doubt that BMW Welt — the German motor company's new sales, exhibition, and event center in Munich — is cool.
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When New Urbanism was starting to develop in the 1980's, much of the Charlotte, North Carolina, area was not yet conceived; uptown was dying, and building mixed-use areas was "illegal." The suburban model of growth reigned supreme. But times change.
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More Building and Construction Quirky Top-Floor Spaces in Demand for Offices — New York Times, 2008.0514High-End Hotels Fuel New Design Era — Sydney Morning Herald, 2008.0514 Redesigning a Building to Preserve Peace in the Neighborhood — New York Times, 2008.0514 Design Code Change Sought — New Zealand Herald, 2008.0514 Leading Home Builder Goes Bust — News.com.au, 2008.0514 Gustafson Porter to Design Venice Biennale Landscape Installation — Architects' Journal, 2008.0513 Building Australia Gets $20b — The Age (Australia), 2008.0513 Toll Brothers Sees Drop in Home-Building Revenue — Reuters, 2008.0513 Foster + Partners Evolve in India — Building (UK), 2008.0512 Suburban Urbanism Hard to Figure Out — Nashville City Paper, 2008.0512 Construction Costs Outpace Consumer Index Increase — New Orleans City Business, 2008.0512 The Process of Building Residential Housing — Cooperator, 2008.0512 Standard Pacific Reports Bigger Loss; Stock Dives — MarketWatch, 2008.0512 Housing Crisis: Caroline Flint's Cabinet Meeting Notes Deciphered — Telegraph (UK), 2008.0512 Boost for House Building and Jobs — BBC News, 2008.0512 New US Embassy in Berlin Triggers Architecture Debate — Deutsche-Welt, 2008.0511 Brooklyn Churches Come and Go — New York Times, 2008.0511 Building with Steel — Montreal Gazette, 2008.0510 The Incredible Shrinking House — CNN, 2008.0509 Architects in Glass Houses — New York Times, 2008.0508 An Architectural Melting Pot — Newsday, 2008.0507 In England, at Home in a Railroad Station — New York Times, 2008.0507 Home Builders Slow to Embrace Green Development, Report Says — Baltimore Business Journal, 2008.0506 May 6, 2008, 7:53AM Vulcan Materials Cuts 2008 Guidance, Citing Housing Slump — Houston Chronicle, 2008.0506 Homebuilders: Waiting for the Thaw — MSNBC, 2008.0506 Canadian Building Permits Fall to Lowest in 13 Months — Bloomberg, 2008.0506 Tempus: Brick Building — The Times (London), 2008.0506 D.R. Horton Posts $1.3 Bln Loss; Cuts Dividend — Guardian Unlimited, 2008.0506 the New Look of the Bund — Shanghaiist, 2008.0505
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