Much of the Afghan capital's being rebuilt, but this neighborhood remains a fetid warren of ruined mud brick houses.
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The old town of mud-brick houses linked by labyrinthine alleys is disappearing, eaten up by broad avenues lined by high-rise buildings.
There aren't very many people and the plastic roofs seem out of place under what used to be tidy, middle class brick houses.
He was 38, and had little other work to his name except a workers' estate, of yellow-brick houses grouped round courtyards, near Elsinore.
We skim so low over the roof tops of the city, I feel like I can see in through the windows of the mud brick houses.
Though most people have given up traditional Mongolian yurts for brick houses, deep stacks of cow manure behind the houses show a continued reliance on traditional methods of heating.
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Start your stroll at the north bank promenade in Kleinbasel (Lesser Basel), a picturesque residential area thriving with local coffee and art shops tucked in between old brick houses decorated with red and purple pansies and colourful wooden shutters.
Homes with floor-to-ceiling windows and skylights are joining the brick row houses and Victorians that have long lined the city's streets.
Soon we were on Route 116 and out of Amherst proper, and this, too, was familiar the small brick ranch houses that housed the Asian grad students at the state university, and the student laundromats and the family-owned greengrocers and the tiny, poorly stocked nonchain video stores in which you couldn't ever find the movies you wanted.
Troops moved forward block by block, hunting for cover behind crumbling mud-brick walls and houses.
Soon he was tackling more ambitious projects: Refurbishing a derelict Victorian street of brick-terraced houses in Kensington, or a Georgian terrace of 25 houses in the same area, always creating ultra-luxury homes.
To deal with the pressing housing problem, the government has shifted its emphasis from building new brick and mortar houses toward in-situ upgrading of existing informal settlements and providing access to services.
Locals here have long stashed ancient documents under the brick floors of their houses, or under furniture, out of an enduring fear of invading armies.
Mies's large drawings of his crystalline visions of faceted and curved glass skyscrapers of 1921 and 1922 were quickly followed by studies for brick and concrete country houses, prescient and perfect in their assured abstraction.
Brick was used extensively for houses, which reflected Queen Anne designs.
Fruit-growing regions are dotted with their new houses, built in brick and sprouting television aerials.
The brick-by-brick demolition of the structurally-unsafe houses left hanging over a sheer drop started on 1 December.
The houses are modern red-brick, apparently free from vandalism or graffiti.
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There are similar properties throughout Gulberg, where large houses with tropical gardens, carefully watered lawns, and expansive pools lie hidden behind high brick walls.
To get there, you have to pass a row of splendid shikumen (traditional stone-gate houses) , and the old-Shanghai textures continue once inside, with red-brick interior walls and reproduced stone gateways above doorways to rooms which are simple, but smart.
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