There are views of the river and the enclosing hills studded with ornate old buildings.
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"I go and look at the space, and they're all old buildings, " he said.
Most of the city's small apartments are in old buildings and there aren't enough of them.
Its glorious old buildings have had to be patched up and re-built on numerous occasions.
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Millions also live in dilapidated old buildings, many of which cave in during rains.
While Jacobs framed this principle as being about old buildings, it was really about cheap buildings.
Head for Fort Cochin, a maze of narrow streets and old buildings, where most visitors stay.
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Some of the site's 150-year-old buildings will be demolished next year when the redevelopment work starts.
It said the old buildings were expensive to maintain and it planned to modernise infrastructure.
Behind heavy gates lie old buildings, broken glass and rubble strewn across the floors.
Some of the hospital's 150-year-old buildings, which were deemed unfit for purpose in 2003, will be demolished.
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Most traditional hummus places are housed in old buildings, often hidden down alleyways and with signs only in Hebrew or Arabic.
Most notably, they restored old buildings including 40 historical sites in Southern Indiana.
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From the old buildings and cathedrals to the click of heels on narrow cobblestone streets, I was infatuated, in love.
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Pinetti said one thing Kimpton does is focus on renovating old buildings for its hotels rather than building new facilities.
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The cluster of old buildings that houses the community seems at first to be a small but classic New England village.
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Adapting old buildings to modern standards of hygiene and privacy is particularly expensive because of rules aimed at preserving historic architecture.
Some of her features are artistically highlighted with stone from the mine that is often used for the restoration of old buildings.
"It always surprises me how often old buildings get knocked down in this country and a new structure goes up, " Nivola says.
Now he delights in the way old buildings are finding new uses.
Antonioli, who works in the field of energy upgrading old buildings, is also renovating the rooms in the 100-year-old buildings, one at a time.
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Work began last year on an eight-year scheme to replace 200-year-old buildings and establish the hospital as the major trauma centre for the region.
It has got funding in place for redeveloping the site and is hoping to move out of the old buildings in 18 months time.
He's looked at old buildings that he's been able to refurbish.
The trust wanted to move the beds because it said the cottage hospitals were old buildings which were too cramped and had defective heating and drainage systems.
Most new buildings, for example, are required to have roofs covered with plants and vegetation, and most old buildings have been retrofitted to meet these standards.
Thousands went to work in the old buildings that lined these streets, forging the metal that built our trains and our ships and our cars and our skyscrapers.
Before driving out of town I call on Alistair Ferguson, head of an aboriginal community group, at his office in Bourke's courthouse, one of the grand old buildings.
How exactly the money will help the preservation effort is not yet known, but a growing number of the old buildings are being done up by private entrepreneurs.
Old buildings are restored, upgraded and converted to new uses.
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