As well as bricking up the shattered walls, some of the agencies have added a new feature not envisaged by Kuito's original planners: an underground concrete bunker, reinforced against future possible attacks.

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Classes were held in the original buildings, several massive concrete units known collectively as the Cellblock, a bike ride or long walk away from the dorms, and the flow of students back and forth in tribal swarms seemed part of the architecture of the place.

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Among other things, the Tarantinos stripped paint from faded black concrete floors and tracked down their original red pigment.

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The original peat central barrier has been replaced with concrete and steel, while the Belfast end has been widened to three lanes each way.

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Among other things, the Tarantinos stripped paint from faded black concrete floors and tracked down their original red pigment also the shade of the terrace floor.

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The association has now dug away the sands, revealing concrete walls still showing signs of the original camouflage.

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We were striving to keep 'Big Small' stripped down, but when we recorded them with the vocal harmony and piano, it felt like it gave the song a more concrete picture without sacrificing any of the original hopes.

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The temples were carefully oriented to face the original direction, and the landscape of their original environment was re-created on and around the concrete, dome-shaped mountain.

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Drive east and you see the same, an undulent landscape carpeted with buildings completed or under construction, roads thick with traffic, and a few forlorn patches of the original Atlantic Forest or more recently transplanted eucalyptus trees to break up the relentless jumble of concrete.

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