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René Ammann | 10.10.2022

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Number of old shipping containers used to build a temporary soccer stadium for 40,000 people during the FIFA World Cup Qatar 2022...


René Ammann | 02.10.2022

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Number of people a bamboo shelter designed by architect Yasmeen Lari can house in flood-stricken Pakistan: 8


René Ammann | 26.09.2022

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Factor by which institutional investors spent when buying up single-family homes in America in 2021, compared to $3 billion the year...


René Ammann | 16.09.2022

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Area that a typical home selling for around $1 million in Phoenix, Arizona, shrank from spring 2019 to summer 2022:...


René Ammann | 11.09.2022

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Number of minutes the modernist Philipp Vandamm House is seen onscreen in Alfred Hitchcock’s 136-minute thriller North By...


René Ammann | 03.09.2022

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Number of illegally built swimming pools that AI technology helped to find in 9 of 101 departments in France, which has an estimated...


René Ammann | 26.08.2022

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Amount each of the 107 Make It Right homeowners in New Orleans' Lower Ninth Ward are eligible to receive as reimbursement for repairs conducted on the defective homes,


René Ammann | 22.08.2022

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Amount of CO2 the planned demolition of London’s flagship Marks & Spencer store will...


René Ammann | 06.07.2022

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Typical thickness of a wall made of mud (banco) that, in a country like Senegal, provides natural insulation from the sun and...


René Ammann | 04.07.2022

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Share of heritage buildings in Vietnam — from the country's colonial era to modernist period — that are not protected: 90%


René Ammann | 26.06.2022

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Factor by which a trio of prestigious London hotels — Claridge’s, the Connaught, and the Berkeley — have potentially...


René Ammann | 18.06.2022

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Number of cities the Gulf state of Bahrain wants to build on reclaimed land: 5


René Ammann | 13.06.2022

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Number of city-center two-bedroom flats one could buy in Egypt for the price of one city-center two-bedroom flat in Hong Kong: 52


René Ammann | 03.06.2022

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Share of the world's 250 biggest contractors who are Turkish and are challenging China as leading builder in Africa: 40


René Ammann | 31.05.2022

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Number of custom colors used on the sun-protection panels on the west facade of the former GSW Headquarters in Berlin, now threatened with "disfigurement" by...


René Ammann | 19.05.2022

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Cost of a 2,000-square-foot (186 m2) house with three furnished bedrooms and attached bathrooms in the small Indian...


René Ammann | 14.05.2022

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Amount paid at an auction for Casa Batlló: Living Architecture, a dynamic NFT (non-fungible token) by Turkish-American new media...


René Ammann | 07.05.2022

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Minimum number of buildings of architectural significance damaged or destroyed by Russian strikes on the eastern...


René Ammann | 02.05.2022

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Probability that one of the largest cities in the world 4800 years ago was located in the area of present-day Iraq and Syria: 100%


René Ammann | 25.04.2022

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Height of the former Union Carbide Building in New York City, the tallest building ever voluntarily demolished, which made way for an even taller...


René Ammann | 14.04.2022

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Thickness of walls at the base of the Monadnock Building, a landmarked 1891 building in Chicago's Loop, located two blocks away from the Consumers Building (1913) and Century Building (1915),


René Ammann | 11.04.2022

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Factor by which the space per person in the Global North is greater than in the Global South: 6


René Ammann | 04.04.2022

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Day the demolition of the iconic Nakagin Capsule Tower in Tokyo, designed by architect Kisho Kurokawa and completed in 1972,


René Ammann | 27.03.2022

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Median age for first-time home buyers in the United States: 32


René Ammann | 21.03.2022

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Base price for a one-night stay in the two-person Biosphere, designed by BIG – Bjarke Ingels Group with a facade made from 340 bird nests: 12,000 SEK ($1300/€1150)


René Ammann | 14.03.2022

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Average property price per square meter in Turkey: $736 (€646)


René Ammann | 06.03.2022

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Discount the owner of a Los Angeles hilltop mega-mansion featuring 21 bedrooms, 49 baths, and 5 swimming pools had to grant: $154 million (€141m)


René Ammann | 27.02.2022

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Number of metro stations Zaha Hadid Architects has designed for Dnipro, the fourth largest city in Ukraine, where...


René Ammann | 20.02.2022

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Time it takes to set up a T-fold wooden home in Italy: 5 hours


René Ammann | 14.02.2022

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Number of people across the globe living in earthen homes: 1.7 billion


René Ammann | 07.02.2022

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Number of bids placed in an auction for a sixteenth-century villa in Rome containing the only ceiling mural ever painted...


René Ammann | 31.01.2022

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Price paid this month in Palm Beach, Florida, for a newer 3,988-square-foot (370 m2) house...


René Ammann | 24.01.2022

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Extent the historic 1743-seat Palace Theatre in New York's Times Square will be hoisted above street level to...


René Ammann | 17.01.2022

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Average floor area of a newly built house in the United States and Australia: 229 m2 (2,465 sf)


René Ammann | 07.01.2022

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Average annual price growth across 150 cities worldwide in the year to Q2 2021, according to a Global Residential Cities Index:...


René Ammann | 03.01.2022

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Number of plants and trees the 75,000-square-meter "Valley" tower block in Amsterdam, featuring 200...