Sentences with phrase «built along the river banks»

Extensions to the metro were completed, luxury hotels were built along the river banks and the city became a popular tourist destination.

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Bolingbrook is receiving $ 149,100 to build 2 miles of a 42 - mile path that eventually will extend along the east bank of the Du Page River from Glendale Heights to Channahon.

Kidder's research suggests the Chinese began building drainage / irrigation canals and bank / levee systems along the lower reaches of the Yellow River about 2,900 - 2,700 years ago.

An eye - catching new building rises along the banks of the IJ - river.

The origins of the city lie in the 12th century, when fishermen living along the banks of the River Amstel built

Starting from the southern end on the bank of the Saigon River, have a look along the way at the Continental Hotel, the Opera House, the Caravelle Hotel, the stunning Gustav Eiffel - designed Central Post Office, and the Hotel de Ville, which is now the People's Committee Building, ending at the Notre Dame Cathedral on Paris Square.

Afterwards, sample high tea at the Hotel Windsor (it's been a Melbourne ritual for more than a century) or take a walk along the banks of Melbourne's Yarra River, to help build a healthy appetite for dinner at spectacular Attica, named Australasia's best restaurant in 2016.

Built in the 1787 by a Portuguese nobleman, this palace faces the church built by the same man along the banks of the Kushavati RBuilt in the 1787 by a Portuguese nobleman, this palace faces the church built by the same man along the banks of the Kushavati Rbuilt by the same man along the banks of the Kushavati River.

Hilton Kuching is a four star hotel filled with character, set along the banks of the Sarawak River in the Kuching City Centre.On the outside it blends in beautifully with the high rise buildings surrounding it, but inside it is a luxurious oasis that blends 21st century modernity with traditional charm.On the recreational side of things, the hotel offers a comprehensive array of onsite facilities such as a beautifully landscaped outdoor swimming pool with poolside restobar, a fitness centre, tennis courts and sauna room.Alternatively, guests in the mood for further relaxation can line up a treatment at the hotel onsite massage centre.

Built along the banks of the Ross River, these 27 holes meander through Aussie bush — when it floods around here there's been numerous sightings of crocodiles, but I've yet to see one.

The backdrops in Contemporary Business seem carefully chosen to reflect upon Shanghai's and China's complicated past, its rapid present transformations, and its undecided future, as the merry band of outsiders groove in front of a massive, drab communist style housing project, dance on the Bund along Shanghai's Huangpu River, a vibrant promenade lined with handsome Neo-Classical, Beaux - Arts and Art - Deco buildings (former banks and financial houses from the 19th and early 20th centuries) that are beautiful relics of Shanghai's colonial past and emblems of the city's cosmopolitan present.

How Steeg's Stormwater Concept Works Steeg proposes to build over 60 «islands» along the river bank.

If built, the new terminal would pile coal eight stories high along the Columbia River banks and send 16 trains through Pacific Northwest communities each day.

It's being built along the bank of a distributary channel of the Ganges, one of the world's biggest rivers, prone to regular flooding.

Children by the Salween River in Thailand, International Day of Action for Rivers 2012Hundreds of kilometers downstream from where I was this time last year, on this International Day of Action for Rivers it became clear to me that a major reason why communities in Burma and Thailand are opposed to dam building on the Salween River is because of their children.Half of those gathered on March 14 along the Salween's banks in a small village in Thailand were kids.

St. Louis (/ seɪnt ˈluːɪs /) is an independent city in the U.S. state of Missouri, built along the western bank of the Mississippi River, on the border with Illinois.

- ft. building, located on the north bank of the Chicago River between the River North district and the Central Business District, offers 200 f.t of frontage along the river, including an outdoor plaza with seating and a large waterfront River between the River North district and the Central Business District, offers 200 f.t of frontage along the river, including an outdoor plaza with seating and a large waterfront River North district and the Central Business District, offers 200 f.t of frontage along the river, including an outdoor plaza with seating and a large waterfront river, including an outdoor plaza with seating and a large waterfront café.