Masri described his prison in Afghanistan as a filthy hole, with walls scribbled on in Pashtun and Arabic.
After all, you build a house with walls and beams, but you make a home with hope and dreams.
The department also rebuilt its lockup room with walls that block wireless signals.
Many buildings, constructed hundreds of years ago, are beyond repair, with walls unable to bear pipes or with rudimentary electricity wiring.
It is constructed as a sort of maze with walls of paper.
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He was eloquent on the idea of giving Mexicans workers visas, rather than keeping them out with walls and a large police force.
Burke is a four-time Winter X Games champion in skiing the superpipe, a version of a traditional halfpipe with walls over 5m (16ft) high.
The biggest fix was replacing the chunky bookshelves that partially divided the dining room from the living room with walls, making the space less cluttered.
Shekede said she and colleague Stephen Rickerby were surprised to discover paintings of remarkable "sophistication" -- with walls decorated with gold leaf, precious pigments and organic glazes.
Her home was barely even a shack, with walls constructed from a hybrid of any available flat material scraps that they could piece together to form a structure.
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It took him and a 16-year-old neighbour three weeks to pile 1, 400 pieces of sod in all, 78 tonnes of material into a house of less than 200 square feet (18 square metres) with walls that were three feet thick.
On 12 acres, with walls of glass revealing vast views of the lunar-like landscape, the one-bedroom, 2, 900-square-foot house and separate guesthouse are so secluded its residents have only met one neighbor in the almost two years they've lived there.
With walls covered in calendars and color charts, and shelves and tables filled with computers, blocks, pegboards and books, it's a place to begin learning literacy, math and writing as well as to master fine motor skills and be social.
The variety of gallery spaces in the museum rooms with slanted walls, others with narrowing ends "give you more flexibility in the way that you create a show, " she said.
The office interior--a loft-like space with brick walls--is crammed with desks inhabited primarily by young people transfixed by their computers.
There is a central courtyard with landscaped walls, as well as a beach with several tons of sand imported from the Bahamas, chosen over local sand for its pinkish color.
On the surface, the Morgan Center might look like any other preschool: colorful toys, shelves lined with books, walls adorned with educational posters, children gleefully engrossed in activities.
But, that wall of sound was created in a studio, with microphones and padded walls with all the musicians together in one place at one given time or another.
In April 2005, with the walls closing in, Isgur came out of hiding and sat down with Clark at his mother's house.
Initially open with glass walls, the master-bedroom suite can be closed off from the rest of the home with a type of glass that turns from clear to opaque at the flip of a switch.
Ten studios were created with great walls of light for more affluent renters at 5 Tudor City Place, where Mr. Thomas lived with his wife, Kiono Tucciarone.
Buck's T-4 Lodge is a rambling roadhouse, with log walls, stone fireplaces and trophy heads.
With dark walls, you can use pattern underfoot, which you might normally be afraid to do.
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It was a house with high walls, barbed wires and no Internet or telephone connection.
But there are two big problems with building walls to keep the sea out.
Done up with buttercup walls and dramatically dark colonial furnishings, they feel anything but clinical.
"We don't want to beat people over the head with pay walls, " says Kazim.
The 800-square-foot basement is designed to look like a ship, complete with curved walls and portholes.
This helped the community groups by surrounding neighborhoods with blast walls isolating Sunni from Shia.
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Generous living areas with sliding walls of glass open onto exterior decks and a sparkling swimming pool.
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