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Estimated number of households globally who have solar panels installed on their roofs today: 25 million
Frequency with which the Great Mosque in Djenné, Mali, is freshly plastered in mud: Yearly
Size of the Floating Bamboo House 2 by Vietnam's H&P Architects, constructed from bamboo stems, leaves, corrugated iron, and bamboo screens, featuring a flexible interior layout and floating...
Figure New York City is sinking each year under the weight of more than a million buildings that weigh 762 million tonnes (1.68 trillion pounds): 1-2 millimeters
Share of all the rice straw produced in France, according to researchers at Atelier LUMA, that would be enough...
Rankings of Ghana, Syria and Argentina among the 107 countries indexed Serbian databank numbeo.com, where mortgages are more than 1000 percent of income: 1, 2 & 3
Price celebrities Beyoncé and Jay-Z paid — in cash — for a 40,000-square-foot (3700 m2) mansion on eight acres (3.2 ha) in Malibu, California, designed by...
Increases in the prices of building materials between January 2022 and May 2023 in Nigeria, Africas biggest country: 70%
Share of materials in the renovation of the American Geophysical Union Headquarters in Washington, DC that was reused: 96%
Number of the fifty US states where single women own more homes than single men: 48
Share of the facade of the Reggio School in the Spanish city of Madrid that is covered by cork, creating a habitat for microbiological fungi as...
Price of a two-bedroom, 2.5-bathroom house built in 1984 in Venice Beach, Los Angeles, that is considered
Number of affordable housing units needed to meet India’s growing urban population — expected to reach 600 million by...
Price of a flat-pack home for landless people living in Bangladesh’s river deltas who are frequently forced to move to escape flooding,
Bonus on top of the commission to any agent who can bring a buyer for a seven-bedroom estate in Bel Air, California, priced at $27,995,000, before the city’s “mansion...
Number of high-rise office buildings in the United States that sit on seismic base isolators, apart from the (W)rapper by...
Estimated size of land billionaire businessman Elon Musk and his companies (Boring Co., SpaceX, Tesla) have amassed in Texas to build a new town called...
Distance requested to bump out the front door of a private residence in a historic district on New York City's Upper East Side designed in 1966 by Paul Rudolph,
Size of The Mukaab, a megaproject proposed for the Saudi capital of Riyadh that is big enough to hold 20 Empire State Buildings and due to be completed in 2030: 400m x 400m x 400m
Growth of the price index for properties in the Swiss resorts of Crans-Montana and St Moritz in 2022: 14%
Approximate number of buildings in the affected earthquake zone in southern Turkey that were given “construction amnesties”: legal exemptions for the payment of a fee, for structures built without the...
Share of energy used by the new Sharjah headquarters of waste management operator BEEAH, considered the last project...
Time it takes a 3D printer weighting more than 12 tons to create a 4,000-square-foot (372 m2) two-story home in Houston, Texas: 330 hours
Rank of Migdal Nahum in the Israeli city of Bat Yam among the ugliest buildings in...
Approximate number of buildings that collapsed in Nigeria in the year 2022 (according to a report of the Building Collapse Prevention Guild): 61
Net worth of Africa’s richest person, Aliko Dangote, founder and chair of Nigeria’s Dangote Cement, the continent’s largest cement producer, who says: "A lot of foreigners are not investing...
Number of trees the developer of the proposed 72 Upper Ground complex on London's South Bank, with a floor area of nearly 1 million sf (93,000 m2) — 20%...
Estimated share of US architecture firm billings so far this year that have come from renovation projects, not new construction: 52%
Number of homeless people Karen Bass, the new mayor of Los Angeles, a city of 4 million people, wants to "find housing for" in her first year:...
Price of a 240-square-foot (22.3 m2) home for essentials-only living in the beachfront town of Chinandega, Nicaragua, land included: $8,000...
Number of years the 62,000 square-foot (5,760 m2) mansion at 2-8 Rutland Gate in London, the most...
Size of the planned Ellinikon urban development in Athens, where one million trees will be planted and the tallest building in Greece will be built on the site of...
Estimated cost of Burj Zanzibar (Zanzibar Tower), the 70-story residential high-rise with 266 units proposed for Fumba Town on the semi-autonomous...
Number of rich countries, including Australia, Canada, Norway, and the United States, in which house prices are now falling: 9