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The famous old French and Spanish buildings with their elaborate wrought iron balconies and the narrow streets of the Latin Quarter present an Old World scene.
There will be masses of flowers, reproductions of the handsome old buildings with their grillwork and other things that are typical of New Orleans.
At Woodside the old station buildings still stand disused, and the original platforms have been replaced by accessible low platforms.
The Dartmoor Prison Museum, located in the old dairy buildings, focuses on the history of HMP Dartmoor.
Bernardi suggested East St. Louis, Illinois, because it was filled with old buildings " that exist in New York now, and have that seedy run-down quality " that the team was looking for.
Since then the bridges have been restored to their original forms using as many of the remaining materials as possible, but the buildings surrounding the Ponte Vecchio have been rebuilt in a style combining the old with modern design.
Zone One is the Historic Center, ( Centro Histórico ), lying in the very heart of the city, the location of many important historic buildings including the Palacio Nacional de la Cultura ( National Palace of Culture ), the Metropolitan Cathedral, the National Congress, the Casa Presidencial ( Presidential House ), the National Library and Plaza de la Constitución ( Constitution Plaza, old Central Park ).
There are 82 buildings or sites in Geneva that are listed as Swiss heritage site of national significance, and the entire old city of Geneva is part of the Inventory of Swiss Heritage Sites.
She decided to stay in Geneva alone, living first on the lake at Plongeon ( near the present United Nations buildings ) and then at the Rue de Chanoines ( now the Rue de la Pelisserie ) with François and Juliet d ’ Albert Durade on the second floor (" one feels in a downy nest high up in a good old tree ").
" will pull down the Standard Theatre like they have pulled down all the old buildings, theatres, gin-palaces, dosshouses, temples, shops, arcades, cafes and joints that were intimately associated with the mining-camp days of Johannesburg.
It is a cavity nester, preferring holes in cliffs, trees or buildings ; in built-up areas, Common Kestrels will often nest on buildings, and generally they often reuse the old nests of corvids if are available.
The Baixa de Luanda is situated next to the port, and has narrow streets and old colonial buildings.
in the 19th-century, the former fortifications gave way to a ring road that encircles the old town centre, from which the old industrial buildings have been excluded.
Remnants of old farming buildings
As a consequence, under Saudi rule, it has been estimated that since 1985 about 95 % of Mecca's historic buildings, most over a thousand years old, have been demolished.
Unfortunately not a whole lot of very old buildings are left in town: first the Americans carpet-bombed it in February 1944, later the Germans shelled it for about five months after the liberation in September 1944, and finally there were a lot of very rigorous city planners in the 1950s, 60's and 70's who finished what the Americans and Germans started.
Renewal and rediscovery of old liturgical traditions, such as the reintroduction of the Easter Vigil, and, a more structured atmosphere within the Church buildings.
In the innermost parts of the town a wide selection of half-timbered buildings from at least five different centuries are to be found ( including a 14th century structure one of Germany's oldest ), while around the outer fringes of the old town there are wonderful examples of Jugendstil buildings, dating from the late 19th and early 20th centuries.
Image: Laennec memorial, Necker Hospital, Paris 3. jpg | One of the old buildings of the hospital
You have had these plans of your university made by a great architect, native to our own American soil, who himself had the sense to adapt — not to copy in servile fashion — but to adapt the old Californian architecture to the new university uses, and so we have here a great institution of learning absolutely unique, even in its outward aspect, situated in this beautiful valley with the hills in the background, under this sky, with these buildings, and if this university does not turn out the right kind of citizenship and the right kind of scholarship, I shall be more than disappointed.

buildings and city
The values and talents which made the tile and the dome, the rug, the poem and the miniature, continue in certain social institutions which rise above the ordinary life of this city, as the great buildings rise above blank walls and dirty lanes.
and a quadrillion peas would fill all the buildings in the city of Philadelphia.
* 1695 – French forces end the Bombardment of Brussels, leaving a third of the buildings in the city in ruins.
Damaged buildings included the medieval churches of St. Foillan, St. Paul and St. Nicholas, and the Rathaus ( city hall ), although Aachen Cathedral was largely unscathed.
There are also a few parts of both medieval city walls left, most of them integrated into more recent buildings, but some others still visible.
Nonetheless, the written sources do not mention damages wrought by fire, save the Gardens of Sallust, which were situated close to the gate by which the Goths had made their entrance ; nor is there any reason to attribute any extensive destruction of the buildings of the city to Alaric and his followers.
Jyväskylä would become a notable city for his architecture, with more buildings designed by him than in any other city.
The Acropolis of Athens ( Greek: Ακρόπολη Αθηνών ) is an ancient citadel located on a high rocky outcrop above the city of Athens and containing the remains of several ancient buildings of great architectural and historic significance, the most famous being the Parthenon.
The city ’ s lush tree canopy, which filters out pollutants and cools sidewalks and buildings, has increasingly been under assault from man and nature due to heavy rains, drought, aged forests, new pests, and urban construction.
The elector Clemens August ( ruled 1723-1761 ) ordered the construction of a series of Baroque buildings which still give the city its character.
The three highest buildings in the city are the radio mast of WDR in Bonn-Venusberg ( 180 m ), the headquarters of the Deutsche Post called Post Tower ( 162. 5 m ) and the former building for the German members of parliament Langer Eugen ( 114. 7 m ) now the new location of the UN-Campus.
Berlin's history has left the city with a highly eclectic array of architecture and buildings.
Meyer became director when Gropius resigned in February 1928, and brought the Bauhaus its two most significant building commissions, both of which still exist: five apartment buildings in the city of Dessau, and the headquarters of the Federal School of the German Trade Unions ( ADGB ) in Bernau.
There were major commissions: one from the city of Dessau for five tightly designed " Laubenganghäuser " ( apartment buildings with balcony access ), which are still in use today, and another for the headquarters of the Federal School of the German Trade Unions ( ADGB ) in Bernau bei Berlin.
The city is built on marshy islands, with wooden piles supporting the buildings, so that the land is man-made rather than the waterways.
The famous architect Mimar Sinan designed many mosques and other grand buildings in the city, while Ottoman arts of ceramics and calligraphy also flourished.
Censors were also responsible for construction of public buildings and the moral status of the city.
Each wonder can only be built once in the world, and requires a lot of resources to build, far more than most other city buildings or units.
However, while Muhammad Ali initiated the construction of public buildings in the city, those reforms had minimal effect on Cairo's landscape.
During a siege by Parthian troops in A. D. 257, the buildings in the outermost blocks of the city grid were partially destroyed and filled with rubble to reinforce the city wall.
Old and disused church buildings can be seen as an interesting proposition for developers as the architecture and location often provide for attractive homes or city centre entertainment venues On the other hand, many newer Churches have decided to host meetings in public buildings such as schools, universities, cinemas < ref >

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