Singapore set to raze third of heritage bungalows
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With their white-washed walls and black-colored timber frames, Singapore's "Black-and-White" bungalows are the most distinctive architectural remnants of the city-state's colonial history.
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Fans of The Carpenters are objecting to plans for the duo's former home to be knocked down.
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Buckingham Palace needs Â£3m of repairs to make it safe, the Queen's public accounts reveal.
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In India, builders who raze slums and use part of the land to build houses for the former residents are then allowed to build lucrative towers on the rest of the land.
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GURNA, Egypt  - Drowning out grumbles from tourist touts and descendants of tomb robbers, bulldozers moved into an Egyptian village near the Valley of the Kings on Saturday at the start of a plan to resettle 3,200 households for the sake of archaeology.
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Reporter Ahmad Taufik caught a break as he looked for a follow-up story after a fire devoured a centuries-old garment market in the heart of town last year. A city official had told him anonymously that plans to renovate the market were submitted by a powerful businessman three months before the fire.
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A raucous debate over the shortage of cheap housing and the demolition of 4,500 public units is sweeping the city and likely to become more intense.
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PM promises that government housebuilding plans will be subject to stringent new guidelines.
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In Britain, where three grades of protection of buildings already exist, a fourth category has been proposed: Grade X, for buildings that deserve to be torn down.
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Environmentalists bristle as city moves toward 'shared use' of a local haunt.
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After a suspected arsonist destroys one of Seoul's most important landmarks, questions are being raised over why South Korea isn't doing more to protect its architectural heritage
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Hong Kong retail investors have flocked to the US$3bn listing of shops and car parks by the local Housing Authority with nearly one in ten of the territory&#39;s
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A proposal by the federal Department of Housing and Urban Development to demolish four public housing complexes in New Orleans has touched a raw nerve.
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Symbols of former mainlanders' past, the villages are being plowed under to accommodate urban growth.
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A public market on the edge of Williamsburg may be forced to close by June if the city moves forward with a plan to demolish the building and replace it with housing.
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The home builder said on Tuesday declining home values would lead to its first quarterly loss since it listed on the New York Stock Exchange in 1995, sending its shares to a three-year low.
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Dilapidated shed in Welsh seaside resort of Abersoch thought to have attracted three bids above asking price