
sliver building noun an extremely tall, narrow skyscraper
It seems that we are seeing more super-tall buildings, including those sliver buildings on fifty-seventh street in midtown.
[WNYC: Leonard Lopate Show (US culture and current affairs) 21 January 2016]
shadow flipping noun the practice of selling a house and then re-selling it several times before completing the contract
An angry former homeowner who believes he’s a victim of ‘shadow flipping’ is speaking out about a Richmond real estate investor, who has been sued by several other homeowners, in the hopes he can serve as a warning to others in our overheated housing market.
[http://bc.ctvnews.ca/ 11 February 2016]
nanotecture noun small-scale, experimental architecture
Take a look at 11 other examples of ‘nanotecture’ – from the small, to the not-so-small.
[http://www.bbc.co.uk/ 28 March 2016]
Silver building will be of great use in today’s world….
Very interesting and useful.
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Very hard to read this jumble of words and understand it.