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The silvery tones ring through several courtyards on my block.
Thrown off the streets, they have recongregated in basements and courtyards.
Schuler also displayed twenty marble statues in courtyards at his home.
Smaller courtyards were sometimes used as classrooms for the clan's children.
It was designed by Abacus Architects + Planners and features four courtyards ...
The buildings would have two floors of workspace centered around interior courtyards.
These things look wholly unnatural, resembling paved floors, moorings, courtyards, and colonnades.
Rock clubs aren't Wolf Eyes' thing -- courtyards of student co-ops are.
Ward 453 has 20 patient rooms built around a couple of courtyards.
Several courtyards and patios on the property merge indoor and outdoor living.
Typically, the aesthetic authoritarian likes spartan design: Doric columns and militarized courtyards.
The interconnecting courtyards and gardens, framed by beautifully painted gateways, are stunning.
His secret project ballooned to 12 acres of courtyards and twisting passages.
Most of the bedrooms are on the upper levels overlooking the courtyards.
Batniji says that he cannot remember if the courtyards had doors at all.
He dispatched these amateur counsellors to "friendship benches" installed in health centres' courtyards.
In the courtyards, they used stone paving and concrete panels to retain coolness.
They're lined with small houses that have courtyards, some of which house restaurants.
There are open wood trusses and stone courtyards with vegetation chosen to attract butterflies.
The building is full of exemplars of Arab architecture: rounded windows and garden courtyards.
First, Arya and Brienne admire each other while sparring in the courtyards of Winterfell.
Eventually Jean suggested we take a walk outside, through the courtyards of the complex.
The husband-wife team tends to build big, airy, modernist structures with expansive courtyards.
Small, private courtyards behind the dining room and master bathroom are encircled by bamboo.
"If they were comprehensively restoring the courtyards, that would be great," Ms. Levine said.
Beyond it, a quieter world unfolds, with courtyards, galleries, a cozy cafe and bar.
Kill Me Please sets its dreamy sequences in megachurches, reception halls, and high school courtyards.
The city's streets were narrow and lined with houses surrounded by courtyards and brick walls.
Its 30-foot walls enclose evocative narrow streets and courtyards hidden behind worn wooden doors.
The courtyards are landscaped with hanging ferns, avocado trees and a rare black-pepper tree.
Then, they filled the courtyards surrounding the arena in a show of unity, holding their candles.
Barren courtyards sigh with the voiceless breeze; hollow buildings pierce the haze of a featureless sky.
Walking through corridors beside crumbling courtyards, Dr Salvaña jokes that it looks like a war zone.
As one entered deeper, the rooms and courtyards became more intimate, used for various family purposes.
But they are solidly built and have broad green courtyards where trees grow and children play.
"The passageways, corridors and courtyards are filled with urine and faecal matter," wrote a contemporary observer.
So the residents walk about freely and sit around in the courtyards, watching people go by.
It's home to cobbled streets, courtyards, and 50 rooms, cottages, and suites in restored stone buildings.
Historic buildings, set around vast courtyards, are now home to exhibition spaces, studios, shops and restaurants.
They have dome roofs, an array of minarets, stone-portal facades, interior courtyards and decorative tiles.
It was in one of these courtyards or little parks that G.'s restaurant was hidden.
In this reception chamber, between the two courtyards, he subtly refers to the gilded Hall of Mirrors.
Everything from the smokestacks, to courtyards, to sewers, and the dangerous places, like the sewers and rooftops.
The open areas were designed as landscaped courtyards sprinkled with seating of all sorts, to encourage use.
The courtyards have been raised, and the connecting middle space lowered to create a uniform limestone floor.
Young kids played stickball on the concrete courtyards, while older ones loitered in packs on the corners.
There will also be ample courtyards and community areas, which will include gyms, pools, and bookable spaces.
It has four bedrooms, three baths, several courtyards, a guest cottage, staff quarters and a double carport.
Age-old cooling tricks like courtyards, crossbreeze-promoting corners, eaves, porches, and other architectural features were dispensed with.
They picked their way through a maze of streets lined with mud brick walls that surrounded enclosed courtyards.
Zimbabwe has been training elderly women to provide something like CBT on "friendship benches" set up in courtyards.
The large stone-and-brick villas are organized around handsome courtyards with palm trees planted in the middle.
Hutongs, traditional homes built around courtyards in neighborhoods of narrow alleyways, were among the first to be "rectified".
It also was going to have an "open air concept" with glass panels and courtyards and social spaces.
Many of their roofs have now collapsed, and trees and vines had sprouted from their floors and courtyards.
The Japanese house has three built-in courtyards, allowing residents a private view of their own natural world.
The courtyards are woven between office areas, bringing the outside in and giving the building a spacious feel.
Anyone who ventures across the cobbled courtyards wearing shoes with heels or stiff soles is asking for trouble.
With stone battlements, streets and courtyards, Cap Rocat has a lot to offer for those interested in architecture.
The presence of courtyards at the rear of buildings, typical for the Raval, literally amplifies the noise problem.
"That's when the idea of cellular, hexagonal shell structures arranged around courtyards came to us," Mr. Kang said.
There are buildings whose facades or backs have fallen out, exposing ruinous brick insides and distinctive, colonnaded courtyards.
French doors slide open to semienclosed courtyards that have Japanese-style raked gravel beds and scattered rock displays.
The signs could be displayed at each location where data would be collected—streets, parks, businesses, and courtyards.
Mjolnerparken's fortress-like courtyards will be opened up, to allow more flow-through to the wealthier surrounding areas.
Universities across the country shut down as students, often joined by their professors, occupied the classrooms and courtyards.
Today, the estate is tidy and quiet, dotted with inner courtyards, tiny playgrounds and signs prohibiting ball games.
Instead of traditional structures with inward-looking courtyards, their architects now design wide staircases that connect to the street.
Moscow, meanwhile, has announced plans to introduce some recycling bins in communal courtyards for the first time next year.
In a nod to modernity, some looked outward toward the Seine, rather than inward toward courtyards and interior streets.
The royal family lives in the City Palace, which was founded in 1727 and spans a series of courtyards.
Terraces, courtyards, and patios are interspersed throughout LC 710, a four-story apartment complex designed by Taller Hector Barroso.
There were large courtyards packed with detainees, "as if all of Syria had been arrested," one survivor told me.
An unsettling aftermath haunts many of the cityscapes, with shots of flame-scarred brick buildings and litter-strewn courtyards.
And on either side of the main axis are two new strings of courtyards with temples to various gods.
The village had stone buildings and narrow streets, and families sat together on carpets inside courtyards and on patios.
The enormous compound, which sits in the heart of Jaipur's Old City, features courtyards, gardens, and a variety of buildings.
The housing project, which is located on a beach, also contains two interior courtyards through which residents access their units.
I love the tranquil scene here with Mediterranean-style buildings overlooking tiled-mosaic courtyards with fountains and spilling Bougainvillea flowers.
Many now-abandoned churches across Europe also featured courtyards, which have become overgrown or decrepit as they go uncared for.
On a recent weekday morning, a few women pushed strollers by a security stand in one of the inner courtyards.
In a project called Frauen-Werk-Stadt (Women-Work-City), they built apartment buildings surrounded by circular, grassy areas and courtyards.
All that remained of the building was three rammed earth walls and a couple of courtyards that had fallen into disrepair. 
The trucks eventually stopped in front of a traditional ruler's palace, its high archways opening into grand rooms and sandy courtyards.
In prominent families, dawar are impressive open-air courtyards, and only once did I hear a woman mentioned in this environment.
Skeletons of houses with collapsed roofs stand in courtyards alongside a deserted playground, its slides and see-saws wrecked by the flames.
The building was part of a huge complex of pagodas and courtyards that once filled the park—the imperial family's summer palace.
Havelis were almost always built in the same basic form: two-storied with two to four inner courtyards, all in rectangular layout.
To win approval for taller luxury high-rises, developers frequently agree to provide courtyards or other amenities for the public to enjoy.
Designed to reflect the majesty of the emperor, the vast walled complex consists of over 90 palaces and courtyards of varying significance.
Was he destined for life imprisonment the instant he stepped from his concrete porch into one of Jordan Downs' yellowing, cracked courtyards?
Many of those still remaining have been irrevocably altered — the courtyards inside divided and redivided over the seven decades of Communist rule.
The prison grounds are a quiet world of cement walkways, courtyards carpeted in artificial turf and overgrown gardens of trees and weeds.
Photo: Andy YeungThe tightly packed towers have some courtyards that appear to reach towards the center of the Earth, endless pits of darkness.
Last week Moscow city authorities announced a plan to introduce recycling bins in courtyards across the city by the end of the year.
Located in Valle de Bravo, Mexico, Entre Pinos merges the interior with the exterior through courtyards, terraces, and gardens peppered throughout the structures.
Miles and miles of rough country rolled to the horizon, a leafy sandstone valley sprouting interior courtyards and alleyways, the swollen sun overhead.
In courtyards, women who are functional while medicated are now curled on the floor hallucinating, crying, screaming, rocking back and forth for hours.
OUTDOOR SPACE: The lot is about a fifth of an acre, with landscaped brick courtyards in front and back, shaded by palm trees.
I passed giant, empty courtyards, used only a couple of times a year for religious events, searching for the shrine's public relations department.
And spaces that were just functional in other complexes were reimagined as "social spaces": appealing courtyards, wide staircases, and covered walkways designed for interaction.
" Ms. Clark continued: "But the more I thought about it, the courtyard sort of reminded me of Italian and French apartments that overlook courtyards.
They were attracted to the astonishing jumble of temples, alleys, courtyards, shrines, statuary, pagodas, friezes, vegetable-and-spice sellers, fishmongers, palaces and hashish shops.
Marrakesh residents have lately been erecting high hedges against their neighbors, installing swimming pools in their courtyards and turning their atriums into outdoor showers.
The four-bedroom, four-bath, two-story residence also boasts some intriguing architecture: bedrooms and baths open onto interior glass-walled courtyards lined with stone.
She could see tiny green squares of garden in innumerable courtyards; below these, in the lap of the valley, the shallow river that supplied them.
The Old City of Damascus is its most beautiful, famous section, with pedestrian streets, alleys overhung with vines and centuries-old houses built around courtyards.
It was being installed in the palazzo's salons and courtyards and on broad stairs whose niches are adorned with the usual statues of mythological characters.
The walled inner-city is full of stone-paved pedestrian paths and is a car-free maze of shops, restaurants, courtyards and centuries-old ruins.
The shackled women brought out into the courtyards so the Dutch governor from his balcony could choose the woman he wanted to rape that day.
The first-century ruins of the rough basalt houses, packed next to one another, showed tiny rooms that opened onto courtyards linking the individual dwellings.
Dating to the 12th century, it features a labyrinth of windowed courtyards that give the illusion that the site is more spacious than it really is.
On the 'outside' walls are various works focusing on exterior garden structures, copses, and courtyards, while the inner contains more 'internal' arrangements of flowers and flowerbeds.
And her mother's father's family owned half the land in the village, as well as some in the neighboring village, a big house with seven courtyards.
In the post since January, she oversees some 200,0003 objects and an array of museums, papal apartments, sculpture courtyards and other sites, including the Sistine Chapel.
Strolling its streets, you catch glimpses of intimate spaces that exist just beyond the public facades: wisteria-draped courtyards, ivy-shrouded archways, begonias spilling from terraces.
On my visits to the City of Light, I am drawn to smaller, tucked-away edifices — most of them private mansions, many with ivy-kissed courtyards.
The halls and courtyards felt like those token places of worship in Communist countries that were more like museums than functioning centers of a living religion.
On a drizzly night, a trio of friends sat down on maple-wood seats hand-built to resemble those in the courtyards of traditional Korean homes.
Most buildings, constructed in the 1920s and 1930s, are brick and no more than six stories, with front doors set back from the sidewalk in courtyards.
The city is divided by the Danube River, and features cobblestone streets and medieval courtyards in its Castle District, as well as the chic Andrassay Avenue.
They looked like most park visitors, practicing tai chi, dancing in the courtyards and stopping to take in the scent of ancient cypress and juniper trees.
She said drone surveillance might have helped them avoid other courtyards that were covered with netting; they chose the only courtyard where they could have landed.
Constructed of compacted earth, stone and timber with fanciful trimming, the building gives way to courtyards, doors, a large stupa and fanciful statuary, painting and friezes.
We start to walk back toward the car, and the dog keeps trying to pull me down all these little streets that connect the courtyards of apartments.
He'd been spending more of his free time with kids around the neighborhood his own age or older, at friends' apartments, on stoops, in housing project courtyards.
His aim was to turn "useless farmland into a vast network of rooms, tunnels, and courtyards," which could eventually become a resort, according to the location's website.
The perks: a new kitchen, 1,086 square feet, ceilings high enough to house a 15-foot Christmas tree, not to mention the building pool, courtyards, and laundry.
The complex hosts eight buildings connected by four courtyards, which between 21974–19673 served as the secret police's torture chamber for Jews, homosexuals, Roma, and Sinti people.
The shootings took place everywhere, but mostly outdoors: at neighborhood barbecues, family reunions, music festivals, basketball tournaments, movie theaters, housing project courtyards, Sweet 16 parties, public parks.
For centuries, its narrow cobblestone streets were lined with showrooms and workshops, and the clacking of sewing and weaving machines was heard in courtyards day and night.
Balinese dance, with roots in Hindu and traditional folk rituals, is central to the island's culture, performed in temples and courtyards for both religious and secular occasions.
By adding lighting, stores, courtyards and residents to once-desolate blocks, Compass is helping West Farms turn a corner, said Robert D. Frost, a Signature comanaging member.
Apartment courtyards on either side of Baltic Street were also taped off, and some residents of the complex said they had been locked out of their buildings.
Kunming, when we finally got there, was composed almost entirely of intricate wooden structures, from whose shady courtyards came the sounds of cooking, singing, and children playing.
So he lifted the audacious concept behind I. M. Pei 's addition to the Louvre, and added skylights, in the shape of glass pyramids, to various courtyards.
Houses built around courtyards where parents can watch each other's kids, or where neighbors are able to share cars, for example, could be a boon for working mothers.
As the Iraqi forces advanced block by block, courtyards and rooftops became vital vantage points, sniper nests and, despite the brutally hot weather, crash pads under the sun.
Its open courtyards and surrounding empty spaces have hosted thousands of people every day, and hundreds of thousands on public holidays and on the anniversary of Ghazi's death.
Now, porte-cocheres, circular driveways and gated courtyards are cropping up in Manhattan developments aimed at buyers looking to avoid flashing paparazzi cameras, or anyone who might gawk.
Handy online guides are available, but it's far more exciting to stumble upon them on your own, and follow them as they wind through tiny courtyards and storehouses.
OUTDOOR SPACE The home, which sits on a cul-de-sac, is on 5.25 parklike acres bordering Harrods Creek, with courtyards, terraces and hundreds of trees and shrubs.
They all have deep courtyards, tiered mansard roofs and tall, skinny front doors that make anyone passing through them feel like Loretta Young (who had a Woolf house).
The simplest designs rely on readily available materials—chipboard, corrugated metal, plastic tarp—that can be cobbled together into housing complexes, some complete with courtyards, playgrounds, and community gardens.
From the main courtyard, a passage leads past more storefronts—a physiotherapy center; the Mozart room, where the classical-music club meets—to other courtyards, where the residences are.
Business offices and factory space are both in Vietnam's Star Engineers Factory and Administrative Building, and Studio VDGA aimed to connect them with courtyards full of color and nature.
In a change from the residents-only courtyards of the past, these open spaces are truly open and, despite their private roots, can be used freely by the public.
Among the most atmospheric, the 59-room Hacienda del Sol retains its territorial character as a former 1929-vintage girl's school with antiques-filled public rooms and flowering courtyards.
Pseudo-public courtyards and parks creep into the few shreds of commons we have left, and those areas aren't policed by the local government but by private security guards.
Its narrow streets, spacious courtyards and elegant stone structures are reminders of a rich multicultural legacy — a legacy that has survived, albeit in an impoverished state, a century of conflict.
A few havelis have been preserved as small museums, where for a few rupees one can freely wander around the rooms and explore the labyrinth of courtyards, stairways, and balconies.
A "special dispensary" was tucked into one of the courtyards, a quasi-secret food shop and cafeteria that offered otherwise impossible-to-find groceries and various delicacies at subsidized prices.
A quarter-century after the end of the Soviet Union, thousands of Lenins large and small stand proudly in public squares or, as in this case, in quasi-private courtyards.
Mr. Huang said this went against his idea for the plaza — he had intended for the fronts to be shops and the interiors to be courtyards open to the public.
The sculptures are displayed throughout the majestic rooms and grand courtyards of the 18th-century fortress, which provides the works of leading Indian and international artists with a monumental backdrop.
The riads, which date back about 200 years, have been refurbished and updated, a project that included adding a retractable glass roof to one of the courtyards, Mr. Peto said.
He hopes that clients—even if initially drawn by tree-shaded courtyards and famous guests—will see that plant-eating is healthy, tasty and respectful of the environment and animals.
"It feels warm and inviting, it produces oxygen and it sets up the experience of the courtyards" inside the building, said Morris Adjmi, the architect overseeing the condo conversion project.
In addition to the official event, held in a sprawling fairgrounds outside the city center, Milan comes alive with countless design pavilions held in 18th-century courtyards and brutalist landmarks.
Earlier on Sunday a suspected U.S. drone attack killed eight militants gathered in courtyards in the villages of al-Hudhn and Naqeel al-Hayala in Abyan, residents told Reuters by phone.
Permanent LEDs had been ordered to replace the broken sulfur fixtures; in the meantime, mobile arrays of large klieg lights had been set up in the courtyards and along the thoroughfares.
Mr. Chen's inclination to compare the project to a "European village," thanks to the sense of community engendered by its many courtyards, balconies and terraces, did not endear him to some.
New York Times reporters have visited mosques whose minarets were used as sniper nests, whose prayer halls were turned into bomb-making factories and whose courtyards were used to store weapons.
"This is the most peaceful way to get the message out," said restaurant owner Saif Abu Baker, as the Nablus crowds spilled out of the mosque into surrounding alleyways and courtyards.
Wisconsin limestone, hipped roofs, and outdoor courtyards make the home appear like it is a part of the hill that it is perched upon, rather than simply sitting on top of it.
Many of the stylish new clubs and bars that have made this neighborhood the most exciting corner of the city are purposely hidden in courtyards or on upper floors of nondescript buildings.
Each covered street in the Old City seems to harbor a dozen alleys, each alleyway hidden stone courtyards ringed by mosques or shops, with olive and lemon trees growing in the center.
After an extensive refurbishment, the One Palácio da Anunciada opened in February, cascading theatrically up the hill behind the street, with sumptuous rooms, staircases and courtyards appearing where you least expect them.
That includes many of the doorways and entrances in the hutongs' gray-brick walls, which traditionally enclosed inward-facing courtyards, as well as second stories in what are historically single-story structures.
Americans urged to cheer from windows In the capital, New Delhi, President Ram Nath Kovind and senior ministers from Modi's Cabinet stood in their respective courtyards, expressing gratitude with a standing ovation.
President Ram Nath Kovind and senior ministers from Prime Minister Narendra Modi's cabinet stood in their respective courtyards in the capital, New Delhi, on Sunday, showing their appreciation with a standing ovation.
With their high ceilings, tall windows, herringbone floors and granite stone bathrooms, these homes, like the Simonds properties, feel contemporary; the residences on the ground floors have 645-square-foot outdoor courtyards.
The things pile up in parks, courtyards, alleyways and any available open space, often dumped carelessly on top of each other, sometimes making it difficult for pedestrians to walk down a street unimpeded.
"Shared courtyards and intersecting walkways were designed to encourage social cohesion among the residents," Natasha Egan, executive director of the Museum of Contemporary Photography at Columbia College Chicago, writes in a book essay.
The architects configured hexagonal office labs around hexagonal courtyards, and as the building moved toward the desert, they graduated the size of the cells to house the library, auditorium, data farm and mosque.
Julia Vitullo-Martin, a senior fellow at the Regional Plan Association, said her interest lies in gardens and courtyards for their "brilliant introductions of light" within the constraints of New York zoning laws.
Set way back from the road, this maze of open-air passageways and courtyards is about the size of two football fields, an unusual vision of limestone bumping up against the Utah Rockies.
The fluid spontaneity of Pavlova's movement allows her to stand out against the opulent set design of courtyards and palaces that made Dumb Girl one of Universal's most expensive productions at the time.
But the mother, mindful of the danger that faces residents in the stairwells and expansive courtyards of the Mott Haven Houses, warned her it was the kind of encounter that could get her killed.
There have been reports of aborted fetuses being wrapped in plastic bags and volleyed into church courtyards or left in confessional booths, in a frantic attempt from the mothers to absolve themselves of sin.
Also known as holy basil, tulsi is a sacred Indian herb; you'll find it growing in temples, in homes, in the courtyards of families who wish to display it as a form of worship.
One of my favorite works in the biennial, "Make New Hutong Metabolism," highlights three ways the firm has redeveloped hutongs, or the traditional alleys formed by courtyards commonly found in older regions of Beijing.
The building, which once served as the local town hall, boasts rococo wall carvings, a statue of Pallas Athena set into an exterior sconce, two interior courtyards and a marvellous onion-domed clock tower.
There are plans for an exhibition space with information on the garden's origins, an area showcasing the restoration process and an open space with views of the rockeries in one of the garden's courtyards.
With its classical arches, tranquil courtyards and liberal arts curriculum, it is often mistaken for a private college, which it is capitalizing on, reaching out to families "seeking that private school experience," Ms. Schaurer said.
And British republicans are extremely passionate about it; during William and Kate's wedding, I was studying in the UK, and a few of my classmates burned the Union Jack in one of our college's courtyards.
Originally designed to house the library of Sweden's king — though it was never used for that purpose — the ground floor and its two courtyards saw the biggest changes, said Mr. Wingard, one of the architects.
Similarly, basements, and outdoor areas like courtyards and roofs, also don't factor into the allowed size of a building, making them a good place to stick play areas since apartments couldn't be built there anyway.
"Every year, without fail, a mama duck chooses one of the enclosed courtyards at our M.M. Ewing Continuing Care Center to lay her eggs and take care of her babies," staff shared to the Facebook page.
Some of France's greatest architects — Philibert Delorme, Ange-Jacques Gabriel and André Le Nôtre among them — fashioned buildings, courtyards, interiors and elaborate grounds, adding to what they found while resisting the impulse to replace or destroy.
Some have sea views, but even those farther inland can feature charming notes of Aruban traditional architecture, like central courtyards with pools and layouts intended to allow maximum ventilation for the trade winds to blow through.
When I visited Agadez three years ago, migrants packed what locals called "ghettos" at the edge of town, hanging out for weeks in the courtyards of unfinished villas waiting for a chance to cross the desert.
Bad places are near schools, cemeteries and police stations (because they can draw unwanted attention), apartment block courtyards (because the gates might be closed when the customer gets there), and even gutters (unless packages are waterproofed).
Recently, Mr. Thompson led me along the vast new route, wending a giant figure-eight around two courtyards, with views of the river from a ribbon of windows lining the perimeter of the lofty industrial space.
He was often seen walking outside, striking up conversations with acquaintances on the street corners, or relaxing and enjoying a beer on a bench in the courtyards of the Melrose Houses, his neighbor Ray Soriano said.
Angry crowds stormed into the courtyards of Mashhad's Imam Reza shrine and Qom's Fatima Masumeh shrine on Monday night, where crowds typically pray 24 hours a day, seven days a week, touching and kissing the shrine.
"Whether it's an elopement or a grand affair, our lush courtyards, picture-perfect ambiance, world-class facilities, and an impeccable staff make the Kenwood Inn & Spa the ideal setting for your special day," reads the venue's website.
Under white neon tube lights, models snaked around a specially constructed catwalk in one of the courtyards of the Louvre museum, with a front row that drew screen stars including Paul Bettany, Alicia Vikander and Cate Blanchett.
Brown installed a multidimensional étagère in a passageway overlooking one of the two courtyards to showcase various treasures collected over the years, such as an urn by Hilda Hellstrom and a collection of vases by Studio Furthermore.
Guests can lounge by the saltwater pool or in any of the three large courtyards — or wander the 19583-acre grounds filled with lavender, olive trees and an organic vegetable garden that supplies the compound's kitchen. dimoradellebalze.
Amina Suleimanly, a 46-year-old teacher from the village of Akhmetagaly, said since Saturday residents had been cowering in the internal courtyards of their homes to shelter from shells coming from separatist positions a few kilometres away.
Choi gets the details right: the mix tapes, the perms, the smokers' courtyards, the "Cats" sweatshirts, the clove cigarettes, the ballet flats worn with jeans, the screenings of "Rocky Horror," the clinking bottles of Bartles & Jaymes wine coolers.
One segment features a troupe dancing among the reflections of Johnson's Glass House (1949), and the second films the same troupe emoting physically in the landscaped courtyards of Schindler's pinwheeling wood-and-glass house on King's Road (1922).
Photos of railroad tracks leading to distant smokestacks belching black threads into the sky are paired with photos of children sitting under old Soviet statues, girls dancing, men looking out into decrepit courtyards, and kids being, well, kids.
Adding insult to injury, signage welcoming visitors to the City Courtyards complex bore a tone-deaf resemblance to the infamous "Arbeit macht frei" ("Work sets you free") sign that greeted genocide victims as they entered the Auschwitz concentration camp.
On Friday, state television showed Xi walking into the restaurant in a southern district of Beijing known for its traditional alleyways and courtyards, asking how much the food was and how long the owners had been in the city.
Some weeks earlier, a staff member had spotted a mother playing with her child on a tiny lawn on a nearby street, and had invited her to bring the child to play in the spacious courtyards of De Hogeweyk.
The encounters often ended with officers writing dubious tickets, particularly around public housing projects, whose courtyards were policed to such an extent that riding a bike or sitting on the wrong bench after dark could result in a summons.
The Harbour City mall in Hong Kong is playing host to a Smurf art exhibition for a month, and has also turned one of its courtyards into a Smurf village with a 6 metre-tall mushroom house as its centrepiece.
It also reflected upon the popular musical tradition in Aleppo where families in the past used to sit in their courtyards and play their string instruments, and sing, while the destruction of the place had erased that tradition as well.
At the small handful of Levels I've attended, I've caught long-haired Swedes swaying to glittery house music several floors below street-level, and solo dancers in all-white tearing up massive outdoor courtyards to the sounds of bleary ambience.
In contrast to the massive, closed, out-of-town campuses Apple and Facebook are working on, the Siemens building in central Munich will allow the public to walk through new inner courtyards and exhibition spaces and use the ground-floor cafe.
My character, the Space Marine commander Gabriel Angelos, spouted his lines about protecting humanity while carving through a mass of nameless orks who popped up in dribs and drabs along the long, sinewy walls and courtyards of an under-bombardment fortress.
BAGHDAD — From financing the expansion of the vast courtyards that lead into the Shiite shrines of the holy city of Najaf, to ensuring that a Tehran-friendly candidate gets the job of interior minister, Iran's role in Iraq keeps growing.
She thought they would love a newly renovated one-bedroom listed by her brokerage that was also in the Jackson Heights Historic District, a sprawling community of six-story co-op buildings with landscaped courtyards dating to the early 20th century.
ROME — Officials at Link Campus University, a small Rome college lined with courtyards and gravel paths, like to point out the Renaissance balcony where Pope Pius V prophesied the decisive naval victory of the Holy League over the Ottoman Empire.
When she arrived on campus — a flat expanse of grassy courtyards and buildings amid strip malls, auto dealers and chain restaurants just beyond Dover's historic capital area — she found 33 other "opportunity scholars," just as worried and hopeful as she was.
The last show of the season was held at the shuttered Louvre, which has been closed to tourists and art lovers alike because of staff fears over the virus, but not, apparently, to Louis Vuitton (at least not its courtyards).
The ruins of arched and intricately carved stone doorways open onto inner courtyards like dioramas of the war, frozen in time: Human corpses in varying degrees of decay lying amid stray ordnance, broken china, plastic toy trucks, and discarded military apparel.
Indeed, if the controversy surrounding the City Courtyards in Hamburg has taught us anything, it's that art and memory go hand in hand, but often they are instrumentalized by real-estate developers only interested in profit, rather than in raising social consciousness.
It is hard to imagine now, with a children's playground in one of its courtyards and a pan-Asian noodle bar on the ground floor, but throughout 22004 and 22011 the House of Government was a vortex of disappearances, arrests, and deaths.
In a kind of trance we walked the town's maze of blue-domed mosques, mosaic-tiled courtyards and former caravanserais (essentially inns where travelers could rest with their animals), all threaded together by ancient arcades only partially defiled by tacky tourist development.
A crush of visitors and locals alike descended to experience exhibitions and product launches occupying storefronts and palazzos throughout the city, creating lines that stretched along hallways, into courtyards and, in one case, all the way down three very long flights of stairs.
In a golf cart (though not "the Rolls Royce of golf carts," which she keeps in Rome), she zipped around the lush gardens, the medieval rectory where she feeds the poor, the stately courtyards and the recently refurbished wings of her castle.
It is sited roughly east-west, for desert and mountain views, and has glass walls, high ceilings (some of them 303 feet), large pivot doors that open to courtyards landscaped with native plants, and wide eaves that provide shade from the desert sun.
The complex contained not only apartments and courtyards, but also a theater, library, gym, hair salon, post office, cinema, laundry, grocery store, day care center, medical clinic and social club offering classes in boxing, singing, painting, fencing, target shooting and radio building.
There, within the first few pages, you find the sentences that must have been the germ of the novel: Can anyone write about Venice anymore without mentioning the aqua alta, when the waters of the lagoon swamp the city's streets and courtyards?
As the fight for this west Mosul neighborhood raged 10 days ago, Islamic State fighters were dashing between homes across courtyards and passing through holes punched in concrete walls that allowed them to move their positions without showing themselves on the streets.
Burning questions If Bran knows everything that has happened and is going to happen, and is the only person who can succinctly explain what the Night King wants, why does he spend most of his time waiting around in courtyards and staring at trees?
"In our surveys, when our local partners are actually sitting in people's homes or courtyards all across Africa and talking to them face to face in their own language, we try to get at their lived experience, the daily challenges they face," says Howard.
The center will be built as part of an ongoing conservation effort by the World Monuments Fund and the Palace Museum to restore the site, which has four courtyards and was constructed in the late 18th century as a retirement retreat for the Qianlong Emperor.
Established as part of the University of al-Qarawiyyin, the library for centuries was open only to students, but when it reopens — likely sometime next year — anyone will be able to enter the airy rooms with intricate mosaics and latticework and enjoy its fountain-filled courtyards.
" In addition to improving access to the laundry room, during Mr. Geoxavier's tenure Southridge 1 has also introduced bellhop-style luggage trolleys for the use of residents and bought cushioned benches and umbrella tables for the courtyards, replacing outdoor furniture that he described as "prison grade.
Apple's flagship products are built on the suffering of its contractors in the developing world, from the children dying in cobalt mines in Congo to the Foxconn factories in Shenzhen, where nets hang over the courtyards of labor barracks to stem the rising tide of worker suicides.
Elements of the design, such as the way natural light illuminates the underground labs through a series of courtyards and the open plan that requires members from different departments to circulate among study towers, have been cited by the Salk's scientists as influential to their research.
His work focuses on social good and sustainability, and includes projects like the Aranya low-cost housing complex in Indore, where more than 80,000 low- and middle-income residents live in homes ranging from modest one-room units to spacious houses with shared courtyards for families.
Walking behind G., as always when I was with someone born in Sofia, I had a sense of the city opening itself up, the monolithic blank concrete of the Soviet-style apartment blocks giving way to unsuspected courtyards and cafés and paths through overgrown little parks.
He's been getting paid to sit around in a wheelchair on Game of Thrones since his character was injured in the series' very first episode — so, for literally his entire adolescence — and he seemed to bring all the weariness he could muster to Bran's current sitting-in-courtyards stint.
During her time there, she and her husband designed many of the monumental bronze visions of flora and fauna that would later become their trademark, adorning the courtyards of public housing projects, the cover of a Serge Gainsbourg album and the library of Yves Saint Laurent and Pierre Bergé.
"Living in apartments with small windows, in blocks that were closely spaced around courtyards and narrow streets, may have meant that many children weren't exposed to enough sunlight to prevent vitamin D deficiency," said Megan Brickley, study co-author and principal project investigator from McMaster University, in a statement.
The Shanghai architects, whose practice also includes a thriving design store and their own lines of furniture and objects, looked to Chinese urban and residential typologies to create a modern-day "walled city," a collection of quiet courtyards and enclosed spaces linked by a grid of narrow pathways.
Though many locals will say the best way to discover the city's shopping gems is to "just wander around," we prefer a slightly more strategic approach — especially since many of the best concept shops, vintage stores, and homegrown boutiques are hidden in quiet courtyards or tucked inside random residential buildings.
Such was the scale of the genocide that from 20103 until 2012 a huge web of community courts known as gacaca (pronounced "gatchatcha") was set up, under trees and in village courtyards, to dispense justice in a more traditional fashion, by asking witnesses to tell their stories before amateur judges.
"It's a peaceful place with courtyards, green lawns and a pond, and a highlight is seeing the names of more than a thousand scholars inscribed on tombstones," said Eva Van Truong, a native of Vietnam and managing director of the Reverie Saigon, an upscale hotel in Ho Chi Minh City.
Most of the scenes run five minutes or more, composed in long takes that follow a restless array of characters through apartments and corridors, alleys and courtyards, train stations and industrial wastelands—but the kinetic cinematography (by Fan Chao) freezes into tense, painterly tableaux of bitter confrontations pregnant with violence.
All day, lines meandered along church courtyards, zigzagged along school parking lots and snaked around shadeless blocks as tens of thousands of voters waited to cast their ballots, including many independents who did not know that only those registered to a party could participate in the state's closed presidential primaries.
With a rising crescendo of oil pipes pumping their poisonous content into the garden, Ahmadi poetically yet forcefully comments on the challenges of autocratic leadership and the impact of the oil economy on a country where public gardens and private courtyards are the sanctuary and spatial pulse of everyday life.
Magui Peredo and her partner, Salvador Macias, the principals of Estudio Macias Peredo in Guadalajara, Mexico, and finalists for this year's Mies Crown Hall Americas Prize for Emerging Architecture, elegantly reinterpret the Mexican building tradition of thick walls and courtyards for their mixed use — apartments above commercial space — González Luna Building.
Many of the prestigious art school's students and teachers occupied the 300-year-old stone structure on the Left Bank of the Seine: Rather than holding meetings only in the building's vast rooms and courtyards, they turned the school into an atelier, or artists' workshop, where they created protest art.
The 7,643-square-foot house, with three interior courtyards and two rooftop terraces, was restored and modernized about 11 years ago, a project that included the addition of a swimming pool, sauna and other amenities, said Glenn Wilson, the broker-owner of Century 21 Antigua Fine Homes, which has the listing.
The hotel, with a restaurant, was designed for Europeans who might be visiting for only a few days, but the bungalows, like the ones where Ms. Chaouni stayed with her grandmother, were designed for locals: close to the ground, with private courtyards and kitchens attractive to Moroccan families vacationing together.
Speakers and subwoofers eight feet in height would be set up in the courtyards of the Marcy Houses for epic MC battles that would "rattle" the windows of the families, new and old, desperately poor or solidly working class yet unable to get out, that lived in the projects above.
Bhagwan Das Pradhan, head of Bara village council "When a girl uses Facebook, our whole village looks at her differently," said Bhagwan Das Pradhan, council head in Bara, a village of about 214,2500 in Uttar Pradesh full of sprawling, sun-baked fields and squat, old-fashioned houses with courtyards in the center.
CreditCreditAtul Loke for The New York Times KOCHI, India — Clad in a simple striped shirt and the white mundu of the city's fishmongers, Bashir stood out from the well-heeled throng at the warehouse galleries and tree-filled courtyards on the first day of India's biggest contemporary art show, the Kochi-Muziris Biennale.
The 5,380-square-foot home, which Mr. Thompson, the founding principal of the Los Angeles-based architecture firm Assembledge, designed for his family of four, is three separate pavilions connected by glass walkways, with enormous glass doors that slide open to connect the interior rooms to a mosaic of courtyards and gardens.
And yet after a mere 100 yards it exploded into nocturnal life: shisha bars, Japanese karaoke palaces with nostalgic names like Gion and courtyards filled with lanterns, Hokkaido robatayaki barbecue restaurants, late-night sake dens with women in satin dresses and salarymen in black suits lifted straight from the streets of Ginza.
One of the courtyards was the original Winterfell in the show's first season and several other scenes have been filmed all over the grounds, from both Robb Stark and Tywin Lannister's war camps to Brienne and Jamie climbing ashore on the Trident only to find some hanged bodies and three very belligerent Stark soldiers.
During this annual celebration of all things citrus, families open up their private cortes (traditional homes with their own courtyards) to dish out samples of that silky nougat, along with cream-thickened crema di limone lemon liqueur, orange zest-laced pardula sweets filled with sheep's ricotta, freshly squeezed grapefruit spremuta, and candied cedro (citron) peel.
Built in the 16th and 17th centuries by successive popes, the residence of monarchs after Italy's unification in the 1860s and the president's residence and office since the monarchy was abolished in 1946, it has 1,200 rooms – almost 10 times as many as in the White House – majestic courtyards, gorgeous gilded ceilings and works of art.
The property, which covers about 11,500 square feet, consists of two interconnected riads — traditional Moroccan houses built around central courtyards or gardens — and a smaller house acquired by the owners so they could convert its courtyard into a swimming pool, said Alex Peto, a partner at Kensington Luxury Properties, the Morocco affiliate of Christie's International, which has the listing.
The street and its ilk have a special allure for citydwellers hungry for a taste of the architectural past — so much so that developers elsewhere in the city often attempt to create a similar sense of privacy and exclusivity by offering imitation carriage-house facades, interior courtyards or even just the word "mews" to conjure a bygone era.
The route can swing through the courtyards of the Andalusian Center for Contemporary Art — a former monastery turned ceramics factory turned museum, where the eerie Cristina Lucas "Alicia" installation pokes through the windows — and roll past sites that remain from Expo '234, including a towering model of an Ariane rocket outside what was the Pavilion of the Future.
The development, which has 150 rental units and 70 co-ops, had opened just a few months earlier and was receiving a lot of attention for its thoughtful, sustainable design: The complex has courtyards, a large green roof planted with vegetable gardens and fruit trees, a sunny gym on a high floor, and apartments with cross-ventilation and ceiling fans to keep them cool in the summer.

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