I sourced the bathtub from a dealer and found the totem statues and the star light from Universal Providers. The little bum on the wall was a present I bought for Gaby from Columbia Road Market, Hollie says. She used a dresser for the vanity and topped it off with a white marble slab.

They agreed on an all-white kitchen and a brass bathtub for classic features that could then be accented with animal print, architectural furniture, and of course, figurines. I collect miniature animal sculptures. I find them all over the place, all over the world really, at flea markets and such, Hollie says. They were something Gaby was drawn to and so she started her ownand we joke that it got a little competitive. They add a touch of humor and some character.

We both have a pretty large collection of figurines now and occasionally do swaps and make each other jealous with new additions, Gaby says.

The figurines are an easy connection to the lush outdoor space Hollie updated with potted ferns and palms that sweep up against a bamboo privacy wall. Its home to my pissing frog water feature, which was the first thing Hollie bought me for this flat, Gaby says.

The travertine nightstands in the bedroom were found on 1stdibs and the bedside light is from Twenty Twenty One. The Fallopia Vase is by Charlotte Colbert.

The ceiling light is from my friend Orlando, who I buy a lot of weird, wonderful pieces from. He had a pop-up where I found this, and its one of my favorite pieces, Hollie says.

It took a couple of years for this project to come together, although Hollie doesnt want to say that the job is completely finished. Gaby doesnt mind, eitheras long as theyre hanging out together anyway, they might as well chat about improvements. Well probably keep adding to it, given the nature of our friendship and the way it has unfolded, Hollie says.

Gaby lounges in a rattan chair at home.

Do It Yourself

Shop for souvenirs. Collecting items from your travels is one thing that I think creates the most character in an apartment, Hollie says.

Take risks in a bathroom. The options are endless, and you can get away with more here than perhaps in a kitchen, Hollie says.

Design a room around your favorite feature. If you are obsessed with one feature, like leopard print, it's always good to focus on that and dress the rest of the room around it, Hollie says.

Hollie completely renovated the outdoor space to have a tropical and lush appearance, and sourced the table and chairs from Barney Lee.

Shop It Out

Nessa table lamp by Archivio Storico and Vetreria Vistosi for Vistosi, 502 ($649 as of this writing), twentytwentyone.com

Fallopia vase by Charlotte Colbert, 120 ($132), charlottecolbert.com

Runes mirror by Porta Romana, price upon request, portaromana.com

Vintage wrought iron chair from Jermaine Gallacher, 590 ($763), jermainegallacher.com

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As a result, apartment interiors dont offer the floor-to-ceiling vistas that buyers have come to expect from modern condos. Instead, the rooms have an understated, Old World vibe. Custom tile with Waldorf Astoria motifs adorns the master baths, while marble counters and gray-toned cabinets are found in kitchens, with brass-inlay details on floors.

Its not about standing out just for the hell of standing out, Mr. Deniot said.

If the interiors are restrained, the 25th-floor amenity offering, open to residents only, may seem over the top, with pool, bars, game rooms, a library, a theater, a spa and a gym, plus a plant-filled greenhouse-like garden room part of 50,000 square feet of amenities, inside and out. Residents can also avail themselves of hotel offerings like room service, and the public lobby will have restaurants and bars.

Sales, which are being handled by Douglas Elliman Development Marketing, will begin slowly, Mr. Miller said, with 75 units offered initially. Studios start $1.7 million, a project spokesman said, while one-bedrooms begin at $2.6 million and up.

Some analysts say the Waldorfs reasonable pricing, coupled with classic architecture and a convenient location, should greatly benefit the project.

I think this building has a very, very good chance of being extremely successful, said Nancy Packes, the president of Nancy Packes Data Services, who is not involved with the project. Even in difficult market conditions.

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6th March 2020

Jules Haines runs the high-end eco fabric business Haines Collection, which offers customers the chance to buy surplus and often unique designer materials that would have otherwise gone to landfill. Here she tells Eileen Leahy why she is on a mission to ensure that reusing and recycling become the norm in the interiors industry

Tell us how you got into interior design . . .

I lived in Singapore for a few years and met a fellow British ex-pat who was a textile designer. Ive always wanted to work in interiors so when I heard that she was starting a new textile brand, called Korla, I just had to be involved. I helped to set up the London office and worked there for five years before moving to Tunbridge Wells in 2017.

And how did you come to set up your own fabric brand Haines Collection?

It was thanks to a chance meeting in a pop-up shop on Camden Road! The owner of a soft furnishings business there was selling leftovers of high-end fabric off very cheaply. I heard him say what a hassle it was but that he couldnt see it going to waste. It made me think that there should be someone who could offer to resell it for him, at a decent price. I knew others who had the same issue with waste off-cuts too, so I emailed the Camden Road supplier, arranged a meeting and he became my first supplier and still does!

So how does the business work?

It acts as a broker between makers who want to sell small volumes of fabric but dont have the time, and buyers who are looking for something unique but dont have a big budget. This model enables Haines Collection to pass on big discounts to consumers through fabrics which are left-over from large scale building projects, off-cuts, end-of-rolls, or slightly misprinted. Often this fabric would be thrown away, adding to the growing amount of landfill caused by the interiors industry. Now we can offer beautiful fabrics to everyone and help people to buy more ethically.

Which major brands do you work with and how have you developed these relationships?

Im talking with Sofa.com at the moment to see how we can possibly work together with their leftover fabrics. I love working directly with designers too and I currently sell on behalf of Swaffer, Madeaux, Inchyra and Korla. The plan is to build more relationships so ask me again in a year and I hope to have a long list of household names!

What do the majority of your customers use the limited edition fabrics for?

Mostly for curtains and blinds, both of which are a big expense in your home. So working with my lower-priced fabrics can be a very attractive proposition for them.

What do you enjoy most about running your own business?

So much! Its the most amazing feeling to be in control of your own destiny. You dont have to wait to be recognised for your talents, you know that you can do it and you believe in you! Ive never worked this hard before but the job satisfaction is off the scale I absolutely love it. This is my dream job and where Im meant to be. It doesnt feel like work, in fact it makes me feel deeply fulfilled.

What are the challenges involved in working for yourself?

I work from home although one day I hope to get a studio so juggling being a mum to Edward (five) and Jemima (three) and working is tricky, as is knowing that I have to work flat out to really get Haines Collection off the ground. I dont feel guilty about this, though, as I know this is the right thing for all of us, but I do hate the feeling that my kids and husband will see less of me this year than they might have if I had a usual nine-to-five job.

And how about the key benefits?

Feeling complete, like I have found what Ive been looking for, is a key one. And that Im helping make a difference by reducing waste, fulfilling a need in the industry and educating people about how much waste is in the world of interiors. Flexibility is also an important benefit, too, because I can work on it when the kids are asleep in the evening which means I can spend afternoons playing with them!

You also make cushions, run lampshade-making courses etc. Tell us about why you decided to make as well as market

It all feeds into what Im trying to achieve, which is to use leftovers and ultimately reduce what ends up in landfill. I want people to start thinking about the fabrics they throw away so only needing 40cm for a lampshade is such a brilliant way to use your scraps. Cushions came naturally as Im given a lot of random shaped pieces so they were the obvious next step. Im just about to move into creating wallpaper this month, which is exciting!

Sustainability is a big part of your business. do you think more people are thinking about this when investing in products?

Definitely, its an exciting time for conscience businesses and I really believe this is the future. Sustainability and looking at the way we live is finally at the forefront of our minds. Its now being taught in schools and universities so for the generation coming up it will be second nature to them. Its not always easy to go for the eco-friendly option as some are more expensive, whereas Im the opposite Im actually the cheaper and earth-friendly option! But as the industry grows, more people will join the arena, and competition and innovation will help drive prices down, allowing us all to live in a more sustainable way.

How do you plan to encourage more people make strong, conscious decisions when buying?

I like to inform people without them feeling like Im bombarding them, so its striking the balance and not feeling like Im alienating anyone. Luckily its something that people are becoming more aware of so it will grow organically. Im all about the small changes to make a difference. Start with changing all your lightbulbs to LED or Sellotape to brown paper tape. If you think too big it can be overwhelming.

http://www.hainescollection.co.uk

What key elements make a stylish home?

Have a few key statement items that reflect you and your personality. They may be an investment but something that you treasure for a long time and so sets the mood in the home. Im all about mixing in charity shop finds with a stylish statement sofa or a big piece of art that will bring everything in that room to that level of style.

What current trends are you loving and why?

The use of bold colours as Im a big fan of colour. Hopefully the white and grey home trends are behind us!

How important has social media been for you in driving footfall to your business?

Its everything, I have grown my business 100 per cent via Instagram. At the moment 93 per cent of my sales are directly from Instagram and certainly nearly all of my relationship-building starts from it. I just love it as a social media platform thanks to the community and the support. It almost worries me that I have all my eggs in that basket, but you always put the most into what you love, right?

Do you collaborate with any local influencers/stylists/bloggers?

I love a collaboration, mostly because I love building relationships and the way we can help each other out. Ive worked with Influencer Laura at The Indigo House (Instagram the_indigo_house) and Blogger Flik (from sass_spice_andallthingsnice). I met both of them at monthly interiors meetings run by Caroline from the networking group Twelve Local (@twelve_local). These are for anyone and everyone who likes interiors. We support each other, chat and drink lots of coffee!

Wheres your favourite place to shop?

In charity shops! I have the YMCA and British Heart Foundation furniture shops at the end of my road so thats always my first stop when looking for larger items. I go to Hospice in the Weald on Camden Road for clothes for myself and the family.

And to eat out?

I love the new Central Market in Royal Victoria Place; it has a great buzz and fantastic food.

And for coffee or cocktails?

Its always definitely coffee, and I always head to The Black Dog as their coffee is amazing.

Finally, wheres the best place to go locally in order to get away from it all?

Kingdom in Penshurst its my happy place. It feels so peaceful, earthy and has a great vibe. And they have great food and coffee!

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A Bristol company is offering people the chance to help design their own tiny one-person homes.

Last year Bristol City Council went against its own rules to allow three tiny houses to be built in Hillfields to help alleviate its housing shortage.

Bristol's own planning policy says new single-occupier dwellings should not be built even if they meet national housing standards.

But a planning committee ignored the policy to approve plans for the tiny home to be built in the garden of a traditional terraced property in the city's Hillfields area.

At the meeting in January developer Ecomotive was granted planning permission for its Snug homes at 225 Forest Road.

The three homes will be created by converting the existing two-storey Victorian house into two flats and putting a prefabricated box home in the rear garden.

Each home will have its own little grass area, and two of them will have a small patio as well.

Pictures taken on Friday (March 6) show that work has been taking place to prepare the site for the Snug development.

The part-finished modules are delivered to site for residents to complete themselves, according to the Ecomotive website.

The firm said it had leased a small site in Lockleaze to create a pop-up fabrication and training space for its modular self-build Snug homes.

The Snug homes website is now asking for people interested in one of these properties to get in touch and join the Snug community.

This developer doesn't just want to see smaller houses, but a new way of building them.

Their idea is to make homes in a modular way where a core structure would be made in a factory by skilled craftspeople and then it would be up to the customer to choose a custom-build or self-finish.

The custom-build would mean a person chose their own internal and external finishing options, and when the modules are taken to the site a specialist team constructs them. Or, self-finish where the modules are delivered but the customer finishes them off.

Its easy to create terraces or apartment blocks by stacking the modules, and they lend themselves well to more collective ways of living, such as cohousing, where homes can be smaller because people also have access to shared living spaces.

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All federal limits on testing will be lifted, Pence says.

Vice President Mike Pence said the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention was lifting all restrictions on testing for coronavirus, and would be releasing new guidelines to fast-track testing for people who fear they have the virus, even if they are displaying mild symptoms.

Today we will issue new guidance from the C.D.C. that will make it clear that any American can be tested, no restrictions, subject to doctors orders, Mr. Pence told reporters at the White House.

The federal government has promised to significantly ramp up testing, after drawing criticism for strictly limiting testing in the first weeks of the outbreak. But health care supply companies and public health officials have cast doubt on the governments assurances, as complaints continue that the need for testing remains far greater than the capacity.

The estimates were getting from industry right now by the end of this week, close to a million tests will be able to be performed, the head of the Food and Drug Administration, Dr. Stephen Hahn, said at a White House briefing on Monday.

But some companies developing tests say their products are still weeks away from approval.

And even if a million test kits were available, public health laboratories say they would not be able to process nearly that many within a week. A spokesman for the Department of Health and Human Services said on Monday that public health labs currently can test 15,000 people daily, though that figure is expected to grow.

The F.D.A. said that Dr. Hahn was taking into account the anticipated increased production of test kits by an outside manufacturer, Integrated DNA Technologies, which is now selling kits to the federal government and other buyers.

The C.D.C. botched the first attempt to mass produce a diagnostic kit, a discovery made only after hundreds of kits had been shipped to state laboratories. A promised replacement took several weeks, and still did not permit state and local laboratories to make final diagnoses.

Right now, Id say wed need more capacity, Dr. Hahn said at the White House briefing.

The Department of Veterans Affairs confirmed on Tuesday that a veteran had tested positive for the virus and was transferred to the V.A. hospital in Palo Alto, Calif., presenting the federal government with a new challenge a coronavirus infection in its sprawling veterans health care system.

The patient was diagnosed on Monday and is being cared for in isolation, a V.A. spokeswoman said on Tuesday. It was not clear whether local public health officials had already announced the case; Santa Clara County, Calif., has had several previous coronavirus cases, including two announced on Tuesday without any specifics.

The veterans health system, responsible for caring for more than nine million former service members, has been struggling with an overhaul of its $16 billion medical records system, which has been delayed amid technical and training glitches.

Last week, the U.S. military announced its first active-duty case, an American soldier stationed in South Korea, the country with the second-largest coronavirus outbreak after China. In response, Army officials closed the office buildings the infected soldier had used, called off social events on the base and sent clean teams to disinfect anywhere the soldier had been. A civilian employee at another American military base in South Korea has also tested positive for the virus.

[Read: China pushes back as the coronavirus crisis damages its image.]

President Trump said on Tuesday that he may further tighten limits on international travel in hopes of blocking the arrival of more visitors infected by coronavirus, but he ruled out for now any restrictions on domestic travel within the United States.

Were not looking at that at all. Theres only one hot spot, he told reporters. But were looking at other countries and were being very stringent.

The Trump administration has already imposed limits on travel from China, barred all travel to Iran and issued warnings to Americans not to travel to parts of Italy and South Korea.

Later, at the National Institutes of Health, Mr. Trump added that he was not actively considering restrictions on travel to Mexico but expressed concern about Japan, which is hosting the Summer Olympics in Tokyo and has just constructed a new stadium for the competition.

I dont know what theyre going to do, he said. They have this fabulous facility.

As for Mexico, he played down the prospect of travel limits. Were not looking at it very strongly, he said. Were not seeing a lot of evidence in that area.

Two people who died last week in the Seattle area were infected with coronavirus, officials said on Tuesday, suggesting that the virus had spread in that region days earlier than health officials had previously known.

That brought the death toll in Washington State, and in the United States, to nine. So far, those deaths have all been in the Seattle area.

The confirmation of additional deaths adds to an escalating emergency in a region that has rapidly emerged as a focal point for the virus in the United States, where there have now been at least 120 cases of coronavirus in more than a dozen states, as local health authorities from coast to coast raced to assess the risk to schools, medical centers and businesses.

The other deaths, all announced over the last few days, included residents of a nursing care facility in Kirkland, a Seattle suburb.

Health officials in North Carolina announced that states first case of coronavirus on Tuesday afternoon. They said the patient there had traveled to Washington and been exposed at a long-term care facility where there was an outbreak, an apparent reference to the Life Care nursing center in Kirkland, Wash.

The North Carolina patient was said to be doing well and isolated at home in Wake County.

Officials in Washington State were rushing to take steps to contain the spread. Health officials were asking the State Legislature for an additional $100 million in funding to help respond to the virus. Some leaders were weighing more widespread closings of events, and around Seattle, immediate steps were being taken.

In King County, officials were in the process of purchasing a motel in the region that could house people needing isolation. They were also working to repurpose modular homes that had been originally meant to be used by homeless people.

When the coronavirus first broke out in January, its impact on the travel and hospitality businesses appeared limited to China. But the outbreak has now spread to every continent except Antarctica, and the cities and industries that rely heavily on travel and tourism are bracing for pain.

One city that is anxiously watching the spread of the virus is Las Vegas, which had more than 42.5 million visitors last year, 6.6 million of them to attend business conferences, according to the citys Convention and Visitors Authority.

Some big upcoming conferences have already been canceled, including an annual Adobe Systems event with 20,000 attendees and celebrity speakers like Gwyneth Paltrow and Tom Brady. Adobe said it planned to host portions of the event online.

Major companies like Facebook, Twitter and Intel have said their employees will not attend the popular South by Southwest festival in Austin, Tex., which starts next week, but organizers insisted on Tuesday that the festival would go on.

The New York subway will be disinfected every 72 hours, officials say.

If theres one place where being packed in close quarters with crowds of strangers is unavoidable, it is the New York City subway system well known not just to the locals, but to millions of tourists and anyone who has ever watched a television show or movie set in the city. And that makes it a focus of public worry about contagion.

Officials said on Monday that industrial-grade disinfectants would be used to clean everything from train cars to MetroCard machines every 72 hours. The safety of our customers and employees is our first priority as we continue to monitor the coronavirus, said Patrick T. Warren, chief safety officer at the Metropolitan Transportation Authority.

From Monday evening to midday Tuesday, transit workers disinfected nearly all of the systems 472 subway stations, more than 1,900 subway cars and nearly 2,000 buses, officials said. Transit officials in neighboring New Jersey, which has its own vast commuter rail and bus network, have also ramped up its cleaning regimen.

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention recommends keeping essential services like public transit in operation, in part so that health care workers and other emergency responders can get to work.

Other major cities experiencing outbreaks have announced similar precautions. In Tehran, public health officials have said they are disinfecting buses at least four times a day and cleaning trains after each trip. In Italy, buses, trains and ferries are also being disinfected regularly.

Although research on the coronavirus is still in the early stages, a 2011 study on a possible influenza outbreak in New York City found that only 4 percent of infections would occur on the subway.

Iran frees 54,000 inmates to avoid spread in prisons.

The number of people in Iran infected by the coronavirus surged past 2,300, the death toll rose to 77, and the countrys head of Parliament said that nearly two dozen lawmakers had tested positive and should avoid meeting with members of the public, the authorities announced on Tuesday.

The new tallies were reported as the judiciary, apparently hoping to minimize the risk of contagion in Irans penal system, said it had temporarily freed more than 54,000 prisoners considered to be symptom-free. But it was unclear from the announcement how many of the prisoners had actually been tested, given the shortage of testing equipment in Iran.

Gholamhossein Esmaili, a judiciary spokesman, who announced the prisoner releases, did not specify whether any of the reported cases or deaths so far have included prisoners.

Iran now has 2,336 reported cases, more than any country other than China and South Korea, and 11 more people have died, according to figures cited by the deputy health minister, Alireza Raisi, on state TV.

State news media reported on Tuesday that Ahmad Toysarkani, an adviser to the judiciary, was among those who had died. The virus has been felt at the highest levels of Iranian society, with Masoumeh Ebtekar, the presidents deputy for womens affairs and the highest-ranking woman in the government, among those who have become infected.

Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, the supreme leader, was pictured in state news media wearing plastic gloves, and he told the Iranian people to follow medical advice to help combat the outbreak, saying anything that facilitates its spread is a sin.

The death toll in Italy surges while the pope has a common cold.

The death toll in Italy jumped to 79 on Tuesday, an increase of 27 deaths in one day, Italian officials said.

Those who had died in the previous 24 hours ranged in age from 55 to 101, said Angelo Borrelli, the head of Italys Civil Protection Agency who is coordinating the countrys response to the crisis.

Most were over 70, and some had pre-existing conditions. But for the others, we still arent sure, he said at a news conference in Rome.

Of the 2,502 infections so far up from the 1,835 announced on Monday 90 percent were located in the northern Italian regions of Lombardy, Veneto and Emilia Romagna, Mr. Borrelli said. Italy has had by far the largest outbreak outside of Asia.

Meanwhile, the Vatican said Tuesday that Pope Francis was ailing with a common cold, and did not have symptoms that could be related to other pathologies.

On Tuesday, France, which has the second highest number of cases in Europe, announced 21 new cases of coronavirus on its soil, raising the total number of cases to 212. A top official at Frances health ministry also announced one new fatality from the virus, a 92-year-old man in the western Morbihan region, bringing the death toll up to four.

Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo announced on Tuesday morning a second confirmed case of the coronavirus in New York, saying that a man in his 50s in Westchester County, just outside of New York City, had tested positive.

The man initially went to a hospital in Westchester about four or five days ago, before it was confirmed he had the virus, the authorities said, acknowledging that he may have exposed doctors, nurses and others to the infection.

On Tuesday, health officials told the mans synagogue, Young Israel of New Rochelle, to call off its religious services for the foreseeable future. Citing guidance from state officials, the county also told congregants who attended Shabbat services on Feb. 22 or went to a funeral or a bat mitzvah there on Feb. 23 to quarantine themselves; the county said it would order quarantines if the affected people did not do so voluntarily.

The patient, whose test was confirmed overnight in New York City, is a lawyer who works in Manhattan and lives in New Rochelle. Mr. Cuomo said the new patient had an underlying respiratory illness and is now at NewYork-Presbyterian Hospital in the city. The mayors office said he was in serious condition.

Though he traveled recently to Miami, he had not traveled to any of the areas that are known hubs of transmission for the virus. For New York, this means the new coronavirus can no longer be thought of as an external threat that has yet to arrive.

Health authorities in New York are now scrambling to trace the chain of transmission in both directions: who infected him, and who he may have infected.

Two of the mans children have links to New York City. One child attends a Jewish high school in Riverdale, which was closed on Tuesday as a precaution. The other, a college student in the city who officials believed lives on campus, has exhibited symptoms associated with the illness.

Both of them have been quarantined and are being tested for coronavirus, according to Mr. de Blasio.

On Sunday, officials announced the states first case, a 39-year-old woman in Manhattan who had been visiting Iran, one of the epicenters of the viruss rapid worldwide spread.

Symptoms of the infection include fever, cough, difficulty breathing or shortness of breath, and gastrointestinal problems or diarrhea.

Serious cases cause lung lesions and pneumonia. But milder cases may resemble the flu or a cold, making detection of the more deadly coronavirus difficult.

Current estimates suggest that symptoms may appear in as few as two days or as many as 14 days after exposure.

If you think youre sick, stay home, except to get medical care. If you have symptoms, the C.D.C recommends that you call a medical professional if you have recently been in an area with a coronavirus outbreak, or have had close contact with someone who has been to such an area.

Fed rate cut fails to quell investor fears of a coronavirus hit to the economy.

The Federal Reserve delivered the emergency rate cut investors had been clamoring for at 10 a.m. on Tuesday. The market rally that followed lasted about 15 minutes.

By the end of trading on Tuesday, stocks were sharply lower and bond yields had plummeted to previously unthinkable lows, suggesting that investors think theres little the Federal Reserve can do to keep the coronavirus from hammering the U.S. economy.

The S&P 500 fell about 2.8 percent, undoing much of Mondays 4.6 percent surge. The yield on 10-year Treasury notes dropped below 1 percent.

Both moves suggest investors see growing threats to the outlook for economic growth and corporate profits over the next 10 months.

Economists around the globe sharply downgraded their economic growth expectations for the year. JPMorgan Chase economists and market analysts estimated that investors are pricing in a 90 percent chance of recession, according to a research note published Tuesday afternoon.

India curbs medicine exports, affecting supplies worldwide.

In response to the epidemic, the government of India on Tuesday curbed exports of 26 drugs and drug ingredients, including a wide range of antibiotics and certain vitamins, meaning that the new coronavirus could soon have ripple effects on people worldwide with other ailments.

The world relies heavily on Indias huge pharmaceutical industry for generic drugs, but Indian officials are concerned about safeguarding the supply for their own country.

Indian drug makers depend on Chinese factories for key drug ingredients, particularly for antibiotics and vitamins. The Covid-19 outbreak in China and quarantine of Hubei province, where much of the production is centered, has severely hampered Chinas ability to produce those ingredients.

Although Indian companies had stockpiled extra ingredients ahead of the annual Lunar New Year holiday, those reserves are now running low.

Its unclear whether Indias exports of the specified drugs will be completely stopped. The governments order said that exports of the drugs are restricted, which means a government permit is required before they can be shipped out of the country.

The antibiotics facing export limits are tinidazole, metronidazole, chloramphenicol, erythromycin salts, neomycin, clindamycin salts and ornidazole.

Other drugs on the restricted list include the painkiller acetaminophen, the hormone progesterone, the antiviral drug aciclovir, and the vitamins B1, B6 and B12.

Cruise ship passengers in the U.S. being released from quarantine.

Many of the more than 120 American evacuees from the Diamond Princess cruise ship in Japan were set to be released from quarantine on Tuesday from a military base in Texas, after state and local officials said the C.D.C. modified its release protocol in response to their concerns.

The former passengers have been at Lackland Air Force Base in San Antonio for roughly two weeks since being evacuated from the cruise ship. Those being released have tested negative for the virus and have not shown symptoms while in quarantine.

They were scheduled to go home on Monday, but their release was delayed at the urging of San Antonio and Texas state officials. The city tried and failed to obtain a federal court order barring the C.D.C. from releasing more people.

None of those released on Tuesday will stay at local hotels, city officials said, but instead will be taken on buses from the air base to the airport.

Quarantined people who have been infected must be symptom-free and have two negative test results within 24 hours are eligible for release.

Reporting and research were contributed by Jennifer Steinhauer, Katie Rogers, Christina Goldbaum, Reed Abelson, Sarah Kliff, Azi Paybarah, Jesse McKinley, Katie Thomas, Knvul Sheikh, Choe Sang-Hun, Peter Baker, Benjamin Mueller, Marc Santora, Joseph Goldstein, Michael Gold, Luis Ferre-Sadurni, Eric Schmitt, Helene Cooper, Roni Caryn Rabin, Russell Goldman, Paul Mozur, Raymond Zhong, Noah Weiland, Emily Cochrane, Aaron Krolik, Claire Fu, Elaine Yu, Elisabetta Povoledo, Vindu Goel, Manny Fernandez, Mitch Smith, Patrick J. Lyons, Richard Prez-Pea, Dagny Salas, Iliana Magra and Constant Meheut.

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Top Players in the Market are: Atco, Bouygues Construction, Laing Orourke, Red Sea Housing, Vinci, Algeco Scotsman, Alta-Fab StructuresWestchester Modular Homes, Cimc Modular Building Systems Holding, Dubox, Fleetwood Australia, Guerdon Enterprises LLC, Kef Katerra, Kleusberg GmbH & Co. Kg, Koma Modular, Kwikspace Modular Buildings, Lendlease Corporation, Modular Space Corporation, NRB Inc., Skanska AB, and Wernick Group. On the basis of Material, the Global Modular Construction Market is studied across Plastic, Precast Concrete, Steel, and Wood.On the basis of Module, the Global Modular Construction Market is studied across Four-Sided Modules, Mixed Modules and Floor Cassettes, Modules Supported By A Primary Structure, Open-Sided Modules, and Partially Open-Sided Modules.On the basis of Type, the Global Modular Construction Market is studied across Permanent and Relocatable.On the basis of End User, the Global Modular Construction Market is studied across Commercial, Education, Healthcare, Housing, and Industrial.

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Latest Comprehensive Report on Modular Construction Market is Booming Worldwide | Forecast 2025 - Bandera County Courier

Indeed, offsite manufacturing is at the heart of the governments Construction 2025 industrial strategy and the Construction Sector Deal, alongside the adoption of digital technologies and a greater focus on the whole-life performance of built assets.

This ebook looks at the state of play for offsite construction and where it might be heading in 2020 and beyond.

Richard Hyams of architect astudio says this is the year that the housing and construction industry must change if we are to make real progress in tackling the housing crisis and this could lead to modular construction finally going mainstream.

Advances in offsite manufacturing techniques, alongside the emergence of AI and virtual reality modelling, mean modular construction now offers developers and residents a level of speed and quality of construction not previously available, Richard says.

Yet there are still a number of barriers that modular housing needs to overcome before it becomes widely implemented, not least some outdated policies and regulations that have hindered the industrys growth.

Richard explores some of the opportunities and challenges facing modular, and argues that in order to address the housing crisis, there needs to be a change in perspective about what it can bring to the table.

The rising profile of offsite construction was illustrated in November, when Homes England announced 30m to boost production at ilke Homes offsite factory, marking the first time a government body has directly invested in modular housing production.

Executive chairman Dave Sheridan discusses the deal in the wider context of government commitment to Modern Methods of Construction, the need to boost housing delivery and improve affordability.

Finally, Stewart Dalgarno of Stewart Milne Timber Systems discusses Advanced Industrialised Methods for the Construction of Homes (AIMCH), a three-year innovation project that hopes to tackle the housing crisis through greater collaboration, offsite construction, digital working and lean site assembly.

AIMCH aims to foster a mindset where advances in manufacturing and offsite systems are shared, creating a collective knowledge-based underpinned by the latest digital tools.

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2020: The year of offsite construction? - Planning, BIM & Construction Today

Manchester-based housing associations Great Places and Equity Housing Group are set to merge next month to form a new provider with more than 24,000 homes on its books.

The pair said the tie-up, first mooted as a partnership last year, would build more affordable housing across the North-west, Yorkshire and Staffordshire.

As of 1 April 2020, Equity Housing Group, which operates nearly 5,000 homes, will cease to exist, with its assets transferring to Great Places.

Matthew Harrison, Great Places chief executive, who isset to head the newly-combined operation, said the organisation would pursue ambitious development targets.

As it unveiled the merger, Great Places announced it would spend invest 14.5m on building nearly 100 new homes in Blackburn (pictured), 16 of which will be built using modular construction, on the site of a derelict former nursing home.

It is also delivering a 2.7m scheme of 21 homes for affordable and social rent in the Little Hulton district of Salford, a development is located close to The Wells on Old Lane, an 8.6m mixed-tenure site delivering 83 new homes.

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The historic Yellow House in downtown Edgartown is set to have a dash of red on its awning this summer, with the athleisure company Lululemon signing a multi-year rental deal to move from its former location across the street and become the restored buildings first retail tenant in two decades.

Its a rapid transformation for the 18th century building that only six months ago was barely even yellow, its smashed windows, stripped shingles, decaying roof and gray siding all daily reminders of nearly 20 years of neglect in the heart of Edgartowns main street.

Over the winter the once-dilapidated building, now owned by the town and leased to businessman Christopher Celeste, has been the subject of a $2.5 million makeover by Conover Restoration. The smash of sledgehammers and grind of heavy machinery have been daily indicators of the expansive public-private project. During a walk-through this week, project manager and contractor Gery Conover said the work is on schedule and set to be finished by May, with Lululemon planning to open around Memorial Day.

And the Yellow House is now officially yellow again, thanks to a recent paint job.

Our feeling all along was how do you activate the corner of Summer and Main, said Mr. Celeste. This is the top of Main street one of the best locations in Edgartown and it has lain fallow for 18 years. We hope this will bring it back to life.

The story of the Yellow House is part history, part saga. Dating to 1750, the colonial Georgian structure once belonged to Capt. Charles Pease and is one of the oldest buildings on Main street. Owned for decades by the Hall family and formerly home to a bookstore, the building was left unoccupied for decades and fell into disrepair in the 21st century.

Rehabilitation was a long time in the making. Mark Alan Lovewell

Three years ago, the town decided to take the property by eminent domain, paying the Halls $3 million for the building and surrounding land. After a series of starts and stops and some legal wrangling over a public bid process, Mr. Celeste and his daughter Julia Tarka signed a 30-year lease to take over the property and rehab it. The lease provisions include $100,000 in payments to the town and a commitment to complete a full renovation of the property to make it suitable as a commercial retail space.

The Celestes already own and operate Rosewater Market & Takeaway, one door down from the Yellow House on South Summer street, Rosewater Wine & Spirits on Main street, and the Dairy Queen franchise on Upper Main street. The family has also torn down a small retail building on Summer street that is now a two-story building housing the childrens clothing store, Rosebud.

Work began on the Yellow House portion of the project this winter by Conover Restorations. Although a tear-down would have made financial sense, Mr. Celeste and Mr. Conover said this week, the town and historic district required the developers to renovate the building. The building has been extended approximately 15 feet on its western side, and a far wing was taken out because it was not salvageable. Other than that, it looks like a newer version of the Yellow House of old.

Its not a restoration, but it is a rehabilitation, if you will, Mr. Celeste said. Where we could, weve kept as many materials as possible. The goal was, if you looked at it from the outside, it would look like a spiffed up version of the old building. And from the inside, it was built to last . . . Theres some funky aspects of how the house was originally built.

Walking through the building this week, those funky aspects were readily apparent, history literally seeping out of the old floorboards and walls. The original building had a dirt floor cellar, so the first step in the restoration involved jacking up the 30-ton building six feet and replacing its foundation. That process unearthed ancient glass bottles and a 1903 theatre ticket to a Shakespeare festival in Oregon.

The building also had numerous twisted tree logs that were used as supports in the walls. Mr. Conover intends to save as many of them as possible. He has also preserved nearly all the 200-year-old timbers in the second-floor apartments, and plans to leave them exposed when the building is completed.

Its some thrift-Yankee type thing, he said. Thats just the way they used to do it in the old days. You take a tree, and you flatten it off and put in the stud. One hundred per cent original and in its original location.

Contractors Jeff Lucier and Gery Conover. Mark Alan Lovewell

The early plan for the restored building was to house two businesses on the first floor and have three apartments on the two floors above. But that changed when Lululemon said it wanted the entire first floor retail space and could commit to at least a five-year lease, with opportunities to extend it for multiple years further, Mr. Celeste said. He said he received a handful of interested applicants over the winter, but that Lululemon was a trusted renter who he believed would benefit the financial interests of the town, which owns the building.

Im really happy about it, Mr. Celeste said. Theyve been in Edgartown for six years, contributed to the community, invested in programming, and even though theyre a national business, theyve shown that they can provide a lot to downtown Edgartown as well.

The retail space is about 1,500 square feet, and will have a storefront and entrance on Main street. Lululemon is working with the builders to design the space to their specifications although the space will still have the ability to be sectioned into two retail spaces. Mr. Celeste said he intends to rent one of the apartments to Lululemons manager, and hopes the other two apartments will go to workers in Edgartown. He said Lululemon plans to be open 10 months of the year.

Their intention is to not just be a seasonal location, Mr. Celeste said. Edgartown is a charming, walkable business district, and for those of us trying to operate year round business we understand you are trying to make friends in the winter and money in the summer. Those businesses open in the winter do it because they understand part of what makes the Island feel alive. This will help that.

Rosewater Market is also open year round, save for a brief closure after Christmas.

Mr. Celeste said the $3 million investment was not without risk. The buildings former owner, attorney Benjamin Hall, has brought a number of legal challenges, including to the eminent domain taking by the town and subsequent permitting decisions by the Edgartown zoning board of appeals and historic district commission. Although some complaints have since been dismissed, others remain pending in superior court. The town cannot indemnify the family against any rulings made by a judge.

Mr. Celeste said the legal disputes pose no threat to the projects May completion date.

Were not stopping until someone tells us to, he said. My hope is that we have not done this all in vain and that we are not at the receiving end of a negative legal outcome.

Meanwhile, Mr. Conover and his team are working on the buildings final touches, finishing walls, staircases and adding the Yellow Houses characteristic green shutters. For the town, the project represents a major commercial redevelopment on full display in the heart of the historic village, with its distinct New England architecture.

That entire part of the block has been a walk-by zone, Mr. Celeste said. I think it is going to be transformative,

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Site of redevelopment: Clark Mill Complex, 900 Passaic Avenue, East Newark. Photo via Google Maps.

New housing, retail, and commercial spaces will be coming soon to a sprawling facility along the banks of the Passaic River, as a Queens-based developer will commence construction shortly on a project thats looking to re-imagine the areas industrial heritage.

Last October, we reported on plans to revitalize whats known as the Clark Mill Complex at 900 Passaic Avenue in East Newark. The 13 acres of land on the block once housed what was the countrys largest thread manufacturing firm.

The brick industrial buildings on the land were constructed in 1875 and are part of East Newarks Clark Thread Company Historic District, which is listed on both the New Jersey and National Register of Historic Places. The East Newark Planning Board unanimously approved an application to revitalize the land via owners East Newark Town Center LLC, an affiliate of Alma Realty.

Designed by Haldeon-based Bleeker Architectural Group, the development will adaptively reuse eight structures on the property into 616 residential units, 91,022 square feet of retail space, and 4,388 square feet of commercial space. The rental apartments at the East Newark Town Center will consist of one- and two-bedroom units sporting 14-foot ceilings, highlighting the industrial attributes of the existing buildings.

The transformation of the brick complex will include the restoration of a smokestack from the propertys past, but also includes construction of a new parking garage with over 1,350 spaces that sports a rooftop terrace and tennis courts. In addition, 105,769 square feet of vacant space for an undetermined future use is included in the approvals.

The property is just a block from the Tops Diner and located in the neighborhood where the East Newark, Kearny, and Harrison borders collide. Newark Broad Streets train station is just over a half-mile walk away via the Clay Street Bridge and Harrisons PATH station is roughly a mile from the premises.

While neighboring Harrison has a well-publicized building boom underway, the impending redevelopment of the Clark Mill Complex is easily the largest project to hit East Newark in decades. Its set to kick off soon; the Jersey Journal reports that construction of the East Newark Town Center will begin as soon as permits are issued.

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616-Unit Renovation of Historic East Newark Factory Set to Break Ground - Jersey Digs