The Ottoman powers in Athens cared nothing for the ruins of Greek antiquity, and had already pillaged them for building stone or bricked them up for gun-placements.
Its transparent grid defers to the pillar-and-architrave opacity of the ancient stone building without mimicking it.
The air was brisk and the tall, old stone building imposing, with the new prison built alongside it.
The Farmhouse in Morzine is an evocative stone building dating back to 1771.
Bernard laying outside the wood doors of the sixty year old yellow cement and stone building, into the carpeted lobby to the reception area.
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.
Inside one of the classrooms of the grey 19th Century stone school building, there is a different kind of lesson going on.
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.
Because many of its rooms directly overlook the Kaaba, the cubical building that houses the Black Stone, and towards which 1.5 billion Muslims turn in prayer, the complex can charge sizzling prices.
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.
"We just laid the first stone in our first building and we already have three clients interested in leasing 100%, " she notes.
The building is regarded as the first stone castle built by the Welsh princes and was the stronghold of Rhys ap Gruffydd, prince of the medieval kingdom of Deheubarth.
Inside a 13th-century building, the restaurant's thick, stone walls are the colour of butterscotch.
The News operates from a small, squat building downtown, a modernist structure with thick stone and jutting overhangs.
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.
Beck snapped pictures of the crude stone shelters that Alpine Club members had begun building high in the mountains the precursors to the helicopter-serviced "huts" you find these days.
The main building has been restored using traditional techniques, so that its stone walls seem to blend seamlessly into the environment.
China's building is unmistakeable because its entrance is graced by a pair of stone lions.
Freight included coal, corn, stone, iron, timber, rope and chalk and later building materials for the Great Western Railway.
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Asus tried to kill two birds with one stone when it created the Transformer AiO, but wound up building a giant brick.
Rather than compete with his peers for trendy new art, hedge-fund manager Michael Steinhardt and his wife, Judy, are building several collections around comparatively obscure niches like ancient Peruvian feather ponchos, Cycladic stone figures and 15th-century rugs.
Another nearby building is still a wrangled mess, with structural steel rods jutting out of blackened stone.
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.
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.
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