Following the Holyrood inquiry, Lord Fraser remarked of the Scottish Parliament that "this unique one-off building could never ever have been built for £50m and I am amazed that for so long the myth has been perpetuated it could".
As Metzstein explained: "We got the unique opportunity to design modern buildings that were not modern programmes – churches, convents, seminaries … We were relatively young and more excitable, maybe … We were designing churches, which are one-off buildings with an emotional and religious context".
One year ago, gunmen from Hamas, an Islamist anti-Israel group, took over Gaza, shooting some of their more secular Fatah rivals in the knees and tossing one off a building.
Glenn Weyhausen, AlphaSmart's senior director, said that after the Dana survived some six-foot drop tests, a group of AlphaSmart employees tossed one off a two-story building.
His characters don't so much converse as riff off one another, building a collaborative structure of ironic significance that only occasionally amounts to what you'd call communication.
When I was sleeping one off, I could hear the buildings walking around, changing places.
Like JumpStartFund, the already extant Crowdfunder is focused on building businesses, not just the one off release of products.
But he was also called on to work on one-off, more or less monumental, buildings.
His shop in Oakland evolved to serve a growing auto industry, and by the 1920s he was working on racecars and building one-off bodies for wealthy clients.
One collapsed building looked like a cut-off pyramid.
Yet if Mr. Smith's name remains little known, that is probably because he has spent most of his life serving as a stunt double for actors (and occasionally actresses) who preferred to maintain the illusion that they were the ones falling from horses and leaping off buildings.
