On the other hand the relative wealth that has come to the village has enabled the renovation of old temples, the construction of new ones, and the hosting of lavish religious festivals, including the Kaowasa festival, known in Chinese as guanmenjie 关门节, a Theravada Buddhist festival to mark the beginning of the rainy season.
Now, Scottish arts group NVA, funded by Creative Scotland and a number of UK trusts and foundations, has been given two years to raise £10m to enable the partial renovation of the great concrete structure.
In 1995, the couple contributed twenty million dollars to the Met, a gift that the museum's president, Emily Rafferty, says was crucial in enabling the museum to undertake the renovation of the sculpture court.
The renovation doubled the size of the gallery, to 2,000 square feet, enabling the presentation of 100 objects, nearly three times what was previously on display.
However, in 2003, partitions between the rooms were knocked through to convert them into teaching rooms and the renovations enabled the upper part of the hall's hammerbeam roof to be seen from inside the rooms.
A 2012 kitchen renovation enabled the exclusive Hotel Bel-Air, in business since 1946, to prepare room service dishes using the same kitchen as its own Wolfgang Puck restaurant.
Add to that a stunning renovation which enabled the building's current role as seat of German government, and we can sense the complexity of the Reichstag's stature in the present.
He presided over the securing of a 17-year contract for Silverstone to hold Formula One races, which enabled the circuit to see extensive renovation work.
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Mr. Thornhill has helped collect about 4,400 signatures on a petition to convince the developer to build around the theater and enable a renovation that would put Queens on footing with other boroughs that have restored historic theaters, including Kings Theater in Brooklyn, Paradise Theater in the Bronx and St . GeorgeTheatre on Staten Island.
