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2. Prefabricated building - Wikipedia

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   The United States used prefabricated housing for troops during the war and for GIs returning home. Prefab classrooms were popular with UK schools increasing their rolls during the baby boom of the 1950s and 1960s. Many buildings were designed with a five-ten year life span, but have far exceeded this, with a number surviving today.

3. List of artificial islands - Wikipedia

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   It was built by the United States Army Corps of Engineers, using sand and mud dredged from the Mobile Bay ship channel and elsewhere. The island is an important site for colonial nesting seabirds and shore birds in coastal Alabama and has been the only nesting site for brown pelicans ( Pelecanus occidentalis ) in Alabama - first discovered in 1983.

4. List of Lustron houses - Wikipedia

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   This is a list of notable Lustron houses. A Lustron house is a home built using enameled metal. There were about 2500 prefabricated homes built in this manner. [1] [2] Numerous Lustron houses have been listed on the National Register of Historic Places. [3]

5. Harbor Island, Seattle - Wikipedia

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   Harbor Island is an artificial island in the mouth of the Duwamish River in Seattle, Washington, United States, where it empties into Elliott Bay. Built by the Puget Sound Bridge and Dredging Company , it was completed in 1909 and was then the largest artificial island in the world, at 350 acres (1.4 km 2 ). [ 1 ]

6. Artificial island - Wikipedia

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   The New Doha International Airport is the second largest artificial island built in the world, with a size of 22km2. The Pearl-Qatar is the third largest artificial island in the world, with a size of 13.9km2. The island was built in 2006, by main contractor DEME Group.

7. List of Levitt & Sons Housing Developments on Long Island

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   During the 20th century, Long Island (and the US as a whole) saw a pattern of mass suburbanization. [1] Levitt and Sons – one of the most famous real estate firms of the 20th century – built many housing developments across Long Island (and the US, as a whole), including Levittown, New York – which is widely considered as being America's first mass-produced suburb, and also as the ...