Reached by a four-minute ferry ride from Cunnamore Pier on the mainland near Skibbereen, the quaint, whitewashed building is one of the many traditional-style cottages that still outnumber the bungalows blighting much of the Irish countryside.

BBC: Ireland��s outlying islands

ArtRio will cover more than 80, 000 sqft in four waterside warehouses along the Guanabara Bay at Pier Maua in the northeast of the city.

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Four aircraft stands will be built along the new pier, which is designed to serve the future generation of aircraft, including the medium-sized Airbus A320.

BBC: Heathrow prepares for superjumbo

The blaze on Hastings Pier, in the early hours of 5 October, took four days to put out and destroyed 95% of the upper part of the structure.

BBC: Hastings Pier architects looking overseas for ideas

The Grand Pier at Weston-super-Mare has had more than 100, 000 visitors over the four-day Easter holiday.

BBC: Weston pier sees 100,000 visitors over Easter break

Plopped on a shoreline noted for its diversity from the honky-tonk boardwalk scene to stately mansions Pier Village and the connected development stand out for their uniformity: street after street of identical four-story condos in tan.

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Centre-left leader Pier Luigi Bersani on Monday issued an ultimatum to anti-establishment comic Beppe Grillo, who gained one in four votes, to support a new government or return to the polls.

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