To date, the trend towards light-weight and high-strength materials in tall buildings, compounded with the emerging inclination towards modular prefabrication of structural assemblies, increasing flexibility and reduced damping, and greater slenderness ratios, has increased the susceptibility of the structural performance of tall buildings to dynamic wind load effects.
Its 40 rooms, in a five-building compound, range from $99 to $245, including breakfast.
2. In 1971, Andy Warhol and his partner, Paul Morrissey, paid $225,000 for Eothen, a seven-building compound with staggering ocean views.
Ms. Dodwell spends weekends at the five-building compound, to which she commutes from the fashionable Pacific Heights neighborhood of San Francisco.
Mr. LeMond, unlike more conspicuously consuming residents, however, built a six-building compound of rustic two-room log cabins on 25 acres with three man-made fishing lakes.
The 31-building compound contains tennis courts, football pitches, seven swimming pools, with mountains and the sea as a backdrop, topped off by a huge dining-kitchen compound that is as big as three football fields.
Nonetheless, it was love at first sight, say the Nathansons, who have built or restored several properties in Thailand, including a temple-style, multi-building compound on the beach in Phuket.
TAXES: $5,800 a year (estimated for the next owner) CONTACT: Peter Thornton, Legacy Sotheby's International Realty (207) 770-2292; www.legacysir.com Pahoa, Hawaii WHAT: A four-bedroom three-bath compound on the eastern coast of Hawaii's Big Island HOW MUCH: $625,000 PER SQUARE FOOT: $313 SETTING: This five-building compound is set on 11 acres, about four miles from the ocean.
"Eventually, we're going to win all these battles, with the pathetic argument that 'Shit, there's no one left watching us anyway — what do you care?' " On a Monday in late April, David Lynch was in the studio of his three-building compound in the Hollywood Hills, mixing the soundtrack for the "Mulholland Drive" pilot.
A few minutes later we saw a sign for the GHF and Mr Kim pulled into a fenced, two-building compound.
