Also, many newly built houses here have brick or brick-and-wood structures, which you no longer see very often in urban China.

而且这里很多新建房屋都是砖或砖木结构，这在中国的城市里不太常看到。

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The use of a limited palette of materials, such as brick, wood and glass, helps the space of the courtyard to become denser through the addition of the new structures.

对建筑材料十分有节制的选择(例如砖、木头、玻璃)和加入的新结构使得整个院落环境变得更加紧密和聚合。

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