Buildings with quarterly or monthly newsletters tend to run with less resident dissension, said Roberta Axelrod, who sits on 10 different co-op and condo boards as the sponsor representative for Time Equities Inc., a company that has converted more than 125 rental buildings in the last 30 years.
Another standout is "Dunescape," a fountain-shelter-sculpture combo that has converted the spacious courtyard at the P.S. 1 Contemporary Art Center in Long Island City, Queens, into a kind of beach, albeit one out of "Blade Runner" or even "Mad Max".
Abby Hamlin, Hamlin's principal, had given up on financing conventional affordable housing soon after the Sept. 11 attacks, so she approached Roseanne Haggerty, the president of Common Ground, a nonprofit organization that has converted old hotels in the Times Square area to facilities for formerly homeless people.
After seven years of development, a small demonstration unit, powered by solar energy for extra sustainability, was installed last year at Marina Barrage, a dam completed in 2008 across the mouth of Marina Bay that has converted what is left of the old Singapore harbor after massive land reclamation, into a freshwater reservoir.
In Europe, 99% of low-cost booking are made through the internet, compared with 75% in America.Another category of low-cost carrier in America is the regional airline that has converted itself, often while also extending its range: Frontier and America West are the best examples.
This book, which describes the descendants of a civilisation that has converted the material in its planets into a giant ringlike structure around its sun, was inspired by Freeman Dyson's idea that a truly technologically advanced species would endeavour to capture as much light as possible by building a spherical shell around its central star.
I've known a lot of nine-hole golf courses that have converted to 18 holes.
None of the 11 towns in the state that have converted to districts have created new offices, they said.
But not all the independent schools that have converted to free school status are putting cash back in parents' pockets.
But it's not Armstrong's simple, passionate politics that have converted consumers — it's his simple, oversized melodies.
Just 24 free schools have been established so far, including seven that have converted from the private sector.
