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The third oldest town in Louisiana, St. Martinville has many buildings and homes with beautiful architecture, such as the historic St. Martin de Tours Catholic Church and La Maison Duchamp on Main Street.

The most representative buildings are the Church of St. Martin of Tours, the Casa Codazzi and the Old School, all in the lower part of town.

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The formation of 3sixtymedia, a joint venture facilities company based primarily at Granada's Quay Street studios and co-owned by BBC Resources and Granada, spelled the final end for the Tours, as the company moved into the Bonded Warehouse on the site, and started using some of the other buildings ( such as the Starlight Theatre ) for additional studio and warehousing space.

The historic buildings are maintained by Maligne Lake Tours, a company that dates back to Brewster's and Philips ' early entrepreneurial endeavours.

Tours of the area and some of the old buildings are available.

Tours of Oakland Plantation are available to the public but the buildings of Magnolia Plantation can only be visited with prior reservations.

Other important Romanesque buildings in France include the abbey of Saint-Benoît-sur-Loire in Loiret, the churches of Saint-Foy in Conques of Aveyron, Saint-Martin in Tours, Saint-Philibert in Tournus of Saône-et-Loire, Saint-Remi in Reims, and Saint-Sernin in Toulouse.

The one apparent connection between the two is a score of buildings which somehow or other have survived and which naturally enough are called `` historical monuments ''.

Those three other great activities of the Persians, the bath, the teahouse, and the zur khaneh ( the latter a kind of club in which a leader and a group of men in an octagonal pit move through a rite of calisthenics, dance, chanted poetry, and music ), do not take place in buildings to which entrance tickets are sold, but some of them occupy splendid examples of Persian domestic architecture: long, domed, chalk-white rooms with daises of turquoise tile, their end walls cut through to the orchards and the sky by open arches.

In general, such apartments afford more protection than smaller buildings because their walls are thick and there is more space.

These striking, modernistic buildings on the East River are open to the public and every weekday guided tours are available.

The air conditioning and ventilating systems of large buildings are subject to attack.

Indeed, the failure of home-building as a whole to respond this year to somewhat greater availability of mortgage financing, and the increasing reports of pockets of unsold homes and rising vacancy rates in apartment buildings, may also signal in part that the lush days of big backlog demand for housing are reaching an end.

freeways boost valuation less ( because the garages they require are not prime buildings by a long shot ), and reduce the acreage that can be taxed.

Situated in a region of some of the loveliest mountain scenery in the country, the school buildings are located amid open fields and farm lands.

The buildings are mostly Georgian.

Within view of the avenue are some of the United States government's tremendous buildings, plus shrines and monuments.

There will be masses of flowers, reproductions of the handsome old buildings with their grillwork and other things that are typical of New Orleans.

Adobe buildings are similar to cob and mudbrick buildings.

Adobe structures are extremely durable, and account for some of the oldest existing buildings in the world.

In hot climates, compared with wooden buildings, adobe buildings offer significant advantages due to their greater thermal mass, but they are known to be particularly susceptible to earthquake damage.

Adobe had been in use by indigenous peoples of the Americas in the Southwestern United States, Mesoamerica, and the Andean region of South America for several thousand years, although often substantial amounts of stone are used in the walls of Pueblo buildings.

The main buildings at Pueblo Bonito, for example, are arranged according to this direction and probably served as central places for ceremonial journeys across the landscape.

A wide variety of prizes are awarded to architects to acknowledge superior buildings, structures and professional careers.

Over the next three days 53 people are killed and hundreds of buildings are destroyed.

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.

There are many other places and objects worth seeing, for example a notable number of churches and monasteries, a few remarkable 17th-and 18th-century buildings in the particular Baroque style typical of the region, a collection of statues and monuments, park areas, cemeteries, among others.

It has been estimated that during his entire career Aalto designed over 500 individual buildings, approximately 300 of which were built, the vast majority of which are in Finland.

Solid brick buildings painted dazzling white, large domes and tall, picturesque palms stretched as far as the eye could see, while the wharves and harbor were filled with tall-masted sailing ships.

The Dargāh Sharīf of Khwāja Mu ' īnuddīn Chishtī is situated at the foot of the Tārāgaṛh hill, and consists of several white marble buildings arranged around two courtyards, including a massive gate donated by the Nizām of Hyderabad and the Akbari Mosque, built by the Mughal emperor Shāh Jahān.

In 1940 he completed Tobacco Farmer, the portrait of a young black farmer in white overalls and a blue shirt with a youthful yet serious look upon his face, sitting in front of the landscape and buildings he works on and in.

The Rue Mosnier Decked with Flags depicts red, white, and blue pennants covering buildings on either side of the street ; another painting of the same title features a one-legged man walking with crutches.

In addition, in the words of the architects, the architecture of the buildings was meant to reflect Jeffersonian influence through the use of red brick with buff colored mortar, white vertical columns, and sloped shingled roofs.

Since there was not, as yet, a fixed marker, the borders were prone to abuse, which eventually resulted ( in August 1948 ), in white lines in luminous paint appearing across roads and even through ruined buildings to try to deter the Soviets from making unauthorised incursions into the American and British zones.

in aftermath, there were half a block of burned down commercial buildings, two black residencies burned down, and the departure of many blacks as white men taking arms ran down the street.

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Meanwhile, white rioters threw lighted oil rags into several buildings along Archer street, igniting them.

Numerous accounts described airplanes carrying white assailants firing rifles and dropping firebombs on buildings, homes, and fleeing families.

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Like the federal buildings for the executive and judicial branches, it is built in the distinctive neoclassical style and has a white exterior.

Despite this, it was the last time this happened in such a complete way and the house marked the end of a phase in his design thinking as well as being the last of a series of buildings dominated by the colour white.

The buildings were neoclassical, painted white, resulting in the name “ White City ” for the fair site.

The buildings were clad in white stucco, which, in comparison to the tenements of Chicago, seemed illuminated.

Their facades were made not of stone, but of a mixture of plaster, cement and jute fiber called staff, which was painted white, giving the buildings their " gleam ".

Many of these buildings combined influences from Art Nouveau together with the traditional Sardinian taste for flower decoration: an example is the white marble City Hall near the port.

Richard Meier ( born October 12, 1934 ) is an American architect, whose rationalist buildings make prominent use of the color white.

The three-judge District Court panel found that segregation in public education has a detrimental effect upon negro children, but denied relief on the ground that the negro and white schools in Topeka were substantially equal with respect to buildings, transportation, curricular, and educational qualifications of teachers.

Some explanations include the common color of its old buildings painted and decorated with " cal " ( though anyone visiting modern Mérida can see that buildings are not all white nowadays ) or the fact that the residents keep the city particularly clean.

The two areas of aristocratic landholdings can be distinguished: red-brick Queen Anne Revival buildings are mostly to be found on the Cadogan Estates, whereas white stucco-fronted houses are mostly found on the Grosvenor Estate, built by Thomas Cubitt.

Examples of tile work from various buildings including a fireplace dated 1731 from Istanbul made of intricately decorated blue and white tiles and turquoise tiles from the exterior of buildings from Samarkand are also displayed.