Seventy years ago he was born here, on the grounds of the Sa Cova vineyard, in a dilapidated stone building built into the gentle slope of the hillside.
Now the opera house's admirers are embroiled in a dispute about another building rising a stone's throw away, and which threatens to spoil the view.
The location every "Pride and Prejudice" fan wants to visit is, of course, Pemberley -- "a large, handsome, stone building, standing well on rising ground, and backed by a ridge of high woody hills, " as Austen describes it.
The News operates from a small, squat building downtown, a modernist structure with thick stone and jutting overhangs.
Today, we can come here to the Pentagon, and touch these names and kneel beside a building where a single stone still bears the scars of that fire.
The eight-storey building will have a Portland stone facade and will be run by theatre operator London Aloft.
Inside one of the classrooms of the grey 19th Century stone school building, there is a different kind of lesson going on.
Inside a 13th-century building, the restaurant's thick, stone walls are the colour of butterscotch.
After dining or drinking by the pool, a visit to Bulgari's spa might be in order, not only for its Balinese therapies and hot-stone treatments, but to experience the building itself, a centuries-old house of richly carved teak that has been transplanted from its original home in Java and reassembled here.
China's building is unmistakeable because its entrance is graced by a pair of stone lions.
Asus tried to kill two birds with one stone when it created the Transformer AiO, but wound up building a giant brick.
In the Nasrid Palaces, a palace complex within the palace complex, the combination of building materials (wood, stone, ceramics and plaster) with traditional Islamic forms (intricate calligraphy, stuccoed ceilings and interwoven geometric patterns) reaches a point close to perfection.
Another nearby building is still a wrangled mess, with structural steel rods jutting out of blackened stone.
In addition to the main house, the property includes two stone farmhouses, an outdoor tennis court, pool, and a 20, 000 square foot recreation building.
This was a stone--you can see it was a brick--it wasn't--this building survived Camille.
But no matter how much energy you put into building a sandcastle, it's unlikely to be as impressive as the structures produced by Stone Spray, a solar-powered, robotic 3D printer that can create entire buildings out of sand.
Perhaps most important is the natural setting, from the barely touched mangrove forest (building low-impact was a priority) to the riots of flamboyant bougainvillea that drape the uneven stone steps up to the hillside suites.
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This notion was revived in the 1950s, when the building of a genuine chess-playing machine was seen by artificial-intelligence researchers as a stepping-stone towards a general theory of machine intelligence.
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