The supermarket is in an affluent neighborhood of Tucson, set in the La Toscana Village shopping center, a bustling place with red-brick pillars and green awnings.

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Located in a period building that once did duty as an engineering school, the Inn at the Market in Pike Place Market is a red-brick, boutique hotel.

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Maybe Apple can figure out a way to brick any iPhone used to place a video call from within three feet of a water-filled porcelain object.

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Construction is all about creating materials such as brick, cement and wallboard in one place and shipping it to another place, all of which uses energy.

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There aren't very many people and the plastic roofs seem out of place under what used to be tidy, middle class brick houses.

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Ebisu, with its open-air, brick-and-mortar shopping centre Ebisu Garden Place draws more sophisticated shoppers.

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With those precautions in place, the two men scrubbed the walls and reprimed the brick.

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But why even consider brick-and-mortar retail in the first place?

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The numerous grape varieties are grown elsewhere in Austria, but maturation of the sparkling wines takes place in the dark 2.3km network of stone and brick tunnels that run under the northern 19th district.

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In place of the kosher butchers, fish-fryers, boot-makers, furriers and tailors who lined Brick Lane itself a century ago, and the weavers and cheese-makers of Huguenot days, there are now sari centres, halal restaurants and vendors of exotic produce.

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