Sentence examples for building craze from inspiring English sources

The relationship between the building craze sparked by Germania and the concentration camps could hardly be closer.

"The boom years created jobs, but when the building craze suddenly ended, there was no obvious way to channel all these people into other activities," Mr. Sánchez said.

Still, it took Miami about eight years to recover from the building craze of the 1980s, said Andrea Heuson, a finance professor at the University of Miami.

It was going to necessitate tearing down hundreds of the wonderful old Federal houses that were becoming more unique and precious with every year, as the mad building craze continued.

The Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County is joining the museum building craze: it has selected the New York architect Steven Holl to remodel its home at Exposition Park in Los Angeles.

The best way to illustrate the scope of the building craze is to look at the teams in the first-round playoff series between the Cubs and the Dodgers, which continues in Los Angeles with Game 3 on Saturday.

A canal-building craze soon followed, cheaply and efficiently connecting the inland areas, especially north of the Ohio, with the rivers.

These beach communities have largely resisted the condo-building craze that turned Fort Lauderdale and Miami into a giant construction project during the peak of the recent housing boom.

In fact, they are quietly confident that their business model will see them through to the other side of the current port-building craze.For a start, the Singapore port operator, PSA, likes to point out that although Shanghai's overhauling of Singapore looks impressive, it conceals the fact that the two ports are quite different in how they operate.

Smaller in size than "boat anchors", "glowbug" is a term used by US amateurs to describe a simple home-made tube-type radio set, reminiscent of the shortwave radio-building craze of the 1920s and 30s.

The couple is widely credited with building the entertainment craze of professional wrestling in the 1980s, taking it from niche status to a global brand across television, including pay-per-view and home video, print publications and, later, the Internet.