They sat above the ground on stilts, like flamingos balanced on impossibly thin legs.
"It was just a gardener's cottage built up on stilts, " says Mr. Leclercq, a technology executive.
The other would be to--historically what has happened in south Louisiana--build houses on stilts again.
He lives in a large, heavily shuttered house set up on unusually high stilts.
Built on stilts, some of the rudimentary houses are topped by satellite dishes, but the scene still somehow feels timeless.
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It looks like a garden shed mounted precariously on six-metre-high stilts, and the ladder wobbles as I climb.
The 23-year-old star was joined by performers on stilts, a White Rabbit and human puppets for the Alice in Wonderland-themed performance.
Chickens scratch around under huts that sit on stilts to guard against flooding when the river bursts its banks.
Among them were Ed and Nancy Bemis, who heard waves crashing and rolling underneath their home, which sits on stilts.
Compared with the grubby, overcrowded underground systems of London, Paris and New York, Bangkok's train on stilts is a sparkling success.
Replacing a window pane requires extensive scaffolding because the home sits on stilts, about 60 feet above the steep canyon ground.
One of Mr Copeland's colleagues recently broke his stilts in a fall.
The operator said it was looking at ways to put signalling equipment and electrics on stilts so they are not affected by flooding.
The homes were often perched on stilts at the top of a hill, overlooking a canyon, with magnificent views through curtain walls of glass.
What arbitrary rules could you start breaking, which would allow you to sidestep the competition, walk on stilts, breathe fire, and still become successful?
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Stray dogs prowl the dusty streets, and a slender oil pipeline snakes alongside each major road, elevated on stilts, waist high, like an endless bannister.
There are bands, celebrities, entertainers on stilts, jugglers, comedians and dancers.
"I'd like to see her dancing on the stilts, she knows the choreography, " said Pope, whose official title is senior vice president of event marketing.
The most amazing thing about the new station is that it's built on stilts that function more like legs that can elevate the station above snow and ice.
The salt lakes fill with fresh water, and millions of water birds - pelicans, stilts, shags and gulls - can be seen feeding on the superabundant fish and insect life.
Good publicity for Ms. Beckham's increasingly impressive collections, but within a few days she was back in her trademark stilts (48 hours is a long time in celebrity journalism).
To Roberts, Lake Zakher has reliably proved something of a birdwatcher's paradise, with herons, flamingos and stilts among the rich diversity of species drawn to this rare water source.
If a ferris wheel and a putting green on stilts can draw twice as many visitors each year as the Grand Canyon, the possibilities for Detroit should be boundless.
Everyone and every business will be in geodesic domes on stilts that are impervious to water so that from the air the new part of town will look like bubbles.
More creditably, there is much excellent acting, particularly from Greg Hicks, both as a brooding, Brutus-like Agamemnon, and as a rather sinister, sensuous Priam, who towers over everyone on stilts.
Woodland bandits, they dress up as bandy-legged giants (Ishioka provides them with stilts that seem to be made of accordion sleeves) to set upon unwary travelers, like Armie Hammer's Prince Alcott.
This was followed with clowns on swings or swiveling about in giant rings, acrobats suspended high above the stage, ballerinas, someone on stilts jumping rope and dancers dressed as Tarot cards.
Even before the causeway was built around 70 years ago, children were able to wade through the shallow waters of Mulroy Bay on stilts to get to school on the mainland.
Other attractions include a water discovery centre on stilts above one of seven lakes, a garden dedicated to the understanding of plant genetics and woodland containing species of trees from all over the world.
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