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Discover LudwigThe phrase "ageing building" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to describe a building that is old or has been in existence for a long time, often implying that it may require maintenance or renovation.
Example: "The city council has decided to allocate funds for the restoration of the ageing building in the town square."
Alternatives: "old building" or "dilapidated structure".
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Although it still had its unique collection hidden away in an ageing building whose 1930s parquet floor creaked and cracked, visitors dwindled and the future looked bleak.
First spotted by a passing bus driver at 5.30am, the fire had broken out in the ground floor restaurant of the ageing building and the rapidly spreading flames were fatally funnelled up the staircase of the main lobby.
However there has been little focus on the improvement of existing buildings, and many of Australia's capital cities have ageing building stock that is not operating efficiently and contributing to the nation's growing greenhouse gas emissions.
It includes factors of several types shaping the future, such as major environmental problems; the need for a new economy; challenges for societies, e.g., by globalization and ageing; building participatory and trust-worthy political systems; and developing intelligent technological solutions, and creative educational institutions.
Even in more affluent neighbourhoods of Vancouver, like in the West End, tenants are fighting for the right to pay the same rents after the owner of their ageing building has completed renovations.
They produced their own, fully-scoped rival plan for regenerating the market buildings, the Wards Corner Community Plan, submitted to Haringey in 2013, that would restore the ageing building (rather than tearing it down), minimise disruption, save the market and open up an abandoned upper floor as a cultural space.
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Another reason for the increase in poor neighborhoods is their ageing buildings and decline in infrastructure.
Much as some may loathe the notion, managing ageing buildings and a group of attendees whose number has halved in the past 45 years, can require radical thinking.
His waiting room, in a raucous suburb of San Juan inside an aging building, is constantly packed.
They also said that the aging building was getting too hard to maintain.
It has been two decades since the last baby was born in the aging building.
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