While demolishing a 100-year-old brick farmhouse in Suffolk, England, a maternity roost for brown long-eared bats was found in the attic.
Left in ruins, the old brick exterior has metal walkways that ascend to a cupola with fine views over Guanabara Bay and downtown Rio.
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.
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.
The 1817 inaugural was held outdoors for the first time when James Monroe took the oath in front of the Old Brick Capitol, where Congress met temporarily after the original Capitol was burned by British troops in the War of 1812.
Julie Pham, a broker at Corcoran Group who has the Bond Street listing, said the views of old brick buildings and water towers from the 1, 500-square-foot terrace and the penthouse windows reflect the "urban alienation" in some of Moby's music and movie soundtracks.
"I can't conform to the new codes no matter how much money they throw at me, " said Don Forgione, a 63-year-old retired Brick resident whose home was included in the riskiest zone.
Is it enough to get tech-obsessed shoppers to forgo online retailers for a good, old-fashioned brick-and-mortar store?
The Old-World-style brick and stucco spread, a historical landmark, is situated on a rare half-acre-plus lot.
The old town of mud-brick houses linked by labyrinthine alleys is disappearing, eaten up by broad avenues lined by high-rise buildings.
Of course, these two innovations often lead restaurateurs to what is usually their ultimate goal: that old reliable standby, the Brick and Mortar restaurant.
On the far bank stood an old hydroelectric station, or the brick shell of one.
Tall, yes, but they cannot lift the spirit in the same way as this graceful, massive 565-year-old masterpiece--still the largest brick-and-mortar dome in the world, eclipsing St.
The 100-year-old space, located inside the unusual red brick Gothic station building, was closed for a complete overhaul in 2006.
It's a small, quaint shop with exposed brick walls, antique lamps and an old-time, upright, cash register.
Head south of downtown to historic Old Louisville, an enclave of Victorian buildings, brick walkways, cast-iron gas lamps, courtyards, fountains and statues.
The unlikely pair met amid the neon lights of New York City's Times Square over the weekend and headed back to the squat brick home of 73-year-old Joseph Galfy Jr. on a quiet cul-de-sac in suburban Clark, N.
Yes, there are still old-fashioned people like me in America who shop at brick and mortar stores, and believe that as good citizens paying sales tax is fine.
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.
But Square wanted to create a product that could work for higher volume brick and mortar merchants, including those that still accept old-fashioned cash.
It still has the old Reading Transport colours of crimson and cream and is made of brick, wood and glass panels, some of which have been broken by vandals.
The red brick and stone, the smoke and soot, and the sounds and smells of Old Shanghai provide sharp relief to the shiny new Pudong financial centre across the river.
Most recently, the Brick Box has been given a six-month trial to transform the Angel Pub, an old public house located just a few minutes' walk away on Coldharbour Lane, a road that once had an unsavoury reputation for street crime.
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.
WSJ: The Library's Future Is Not an Open Book | By Julie V. Iovine | Public Library Renovation
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