Jerry Maren, a Munchkin, told Maddalena that the yellow brick road had been painted on the floor (knowledge that came in handy when someone tried to sell Maddalena a yellow brick from it).
In the newsroom of Caijing, a sleek and open gray brick space on the nineteenth floor of the Prime Tower, in downtown Beijing, her arrival is heralded by the urgent click-clack of heels down the hallway.
Back at his apartment, on the third floor of an old brick building within walking distance of campus, techno music suddenly blared, startling his downstairs neighbors, who knocked on his door and called police to complain.
The greeting, uttered heartily by recruits standing watch on each floor of the three-story brick barracks, was not quite military protocol.
Ms. Thompson also opened up the home's interiors by replacing sections of the building's exterior brick walls with mahogany-framed panels of floor-to-ceiling glass.
Mr Jessop said the vault was found after archaeologists dug an exploratory hole in the internal floor of the mausoleum and discovered a brick-built roof.
Homes with floor-to-ceiling windows and skylights are joining the brick row houses and Victorians that have long lined the city's streets.
And even though Alan had never been in the hotel or real estate business, he had an unbelievable clarity of vision I'll never forget, in 2000, he walked me through this gutted brick structure and was describing the color of the curtains, the type of wood floor, the long bench in the entrance.
Voices travel up from the ground floor in a smokestack effect and ricochet around the preserved glazed-white brick walls. (The "new" library prefers buzz over the code of silence of the old library.) How different from the older sections of the library where, for instance, one reading room has restored its carved plaster ceiling reproducing Michelangelo's Laurentian Library in Florence.
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Our only complaint with Airport has been that, while the signal passed through plasterboard and brick--letting us stay online even while enjoying fresh air in a courtyard a floor below and 100 feet from the base station--we had an intermittent connection from the room opening out into that courtyard.
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