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Estimated share buildings contribute to global greenhouse gas emissions: 40% René Ammann

Share of households in Afghanistan that consist of one person only: 0.19% (For the sake of comparison, the same statistic in the USA is 27.45%, in Switzerland is 37.51%, and in Germany is 39.53%.) René Ammann

Average decline in price when a residential property in Hong Kong is thought to be "haunted" by a former inhabitant who died from an accident, murder or suicide: 20% René Ammann

Distance that Vancouver House, a concave condo tower of 60 floors designed by BIG - Bjarke Ingels Group in Vancouver, British Columbia, René Ammann

Share of the 200 cities with 100,000 or more people — such as Dhaka, Hong Kong, Kinshasa, and Minneapolis-St. Paul — tracked by the Urban Expansion Program at New York University... René Ammann

Global number of people living in inadequate housing, most living in slums and informal settlements in cities: 1.6 billion René Ammann

Number of villas the Saudi Arabian government will build for $633 million (€572 million) on a 2.4-square-mile (6.3 km2) area in the Taif region east of Mecca in the south of... René Ammann

Estimated number of the 2.4 million eviction cases filed in the United States in 2016 (the latest data available via The Eviction Lab) that were completed: 900,000 René Ammann

Share of land on Colombia's Pacific coast – 14.8 million acres, larger than Croatia – that has been communally owned since 1993 to benefit the region’s mainly Afro-Colombian residents: 60% René Ammann

Share of government revenues in Hong Kong coming from land sales: 27% René Ammann

Number of buildings in New York City that sit in flood zones and have a combined worth of $129 billion: 72,000 René Ammann

Number of buildings by Frank Lloyd Wright added to the UNESCO World Heritage sites registry: 8 René Ammann

Size of the triclinium (dining room) decorated with mosaics in Villa de Nohada, built for an as-yet-unknown owner in the fourth century in Roman Hispania in a hamlet of Castilla-La Mancha, Spain: 291 m2 (3,132 sf) René Ammann

Number of floors in a building at Rockefeller Center in New York City that will be converted into "high-end apartment-style suites" by Airbnb:... René Ammann

Share of hires made by McKissack & McKissack, the oldest African-American-owned, female-run construction management firm in the United... René Ammann

Amount of money the indigenous Yanacona community sold virtually all its land to the state of Peru for, in order to build a new international airport that may... René Ammann

Number of the 1,648 brutalist masterpieces (or "concrete monsters") listed on #SOSBrutalism that are facing demolition: 171  René Ammann

Amount a construction worker in the devastated Iraqi city of Mosul is paid per day: $12.50 (€11.20) René Ammann

Price of a niche for an urn in a private columbarium "in the best position" in Hong Kong: €204,000 ($229,000)  René Ammann

Estimated profit the U.S. developer Vornado will make on the sellout of the $3.4 billion limestone palace 220 Central Park South in Manhattan, designed by Robert A.M. Stern: $1 billion René Ammann

Amount a Chinese blogger was fined for saying a Beijing office complex designed by Zaha Hadid Architects had bad feng shui: 200,000 yuan (€26,000) René Ammann

Number of years the fabled Bauhaus school — founded 100 years ago this month by Walter Gropius — existed, having moved from the German city of Weimar to Dessau and finally to... René Ammann

Estimated time it will take to sell the roughly 8,600 luxury units available in Manhattan at the current selling rate: 6 years René Ammann

Estimated housing deficit in Lagos, Nigeria’s commercial capital and home to 21 million people: 3 million René Ammann

Number of new buildings of around 10 stories being built near the Acropolis in Athens that have sparked protests (and a petition with more than 22,000 signees) over the René Ammann

Number of days Walter Chrysler, the founder of Chrysler company who gave the name to the Chrysler Building in New York City put on sale recently, René Ammann

Monthly rent for an unfurnished, temporary 420-square-foot (39-square-meter) tiny home in the Dutch city of Rotterdam: €417 ($473) René Ammann

Number of years it took Ahmedabad, an Indian city containing 6 million people, to acquire land for and build a 76-kilometer ring road: 4 years René Ammann

Price of Grand Central Terminal in New York City, the historic 1913 building, and its 67 tracks, more than any other train station: $35 million René Ammann

Year when the term "social design" — the design of relationships, including those that are invisible and intangible ― fully entered the lexicon: 2006 René Ammann

Lifespan of one of the 106 avant-garde houses built by Brad Pitt’s non-profit Make It Right organization in New Orleans that was recently demolished due to shoddy construction: 7 years René Ammann

Share of Singapore's population living in Housing and Development Board (HBD) public housing flats sold with 99-year leases, most built in the 1960s and... René Ammann

Number of the 96 iconic "Futuro Houses" designed in 1968 by Finnish architect Matti Suuronen that still exist today: 68½ René Ammann