Intended as a summer home, it was still in the design stage at the time of his death.

Still in the design stage, the cars are not expected to be running until the fall of 2005.

Indeed, there seems to have been no thought given at the design stage to the impact of the technology on people's work experience.

The car went from design stage to production in just 18 months.

The film reached the design stage before it was abandoned.

As of 2009, the project is still in the design stage.

He added that the public affairs center was still in the design stage.

The need for consensus doesn't stop at the design stage, but continues throughout the project.

Increasingly, however, culture is taken into account earlier, at the design stage.

At the design stage it is easy to be over ambitious.