Sentences with phrase «older city structures»

Properties vary from contemporary apartment blocks to older city structures.

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Once in New York City, when an old church building was being demolished to make way for a new one, a man riding past the ruined structure on a bus said to a friend, «This is the first time in years that I have seen the inside of a church.»
He calls attention to (1) the degeneration in syncretism of the old Yahweh faith prior to the appearance of the eighth - century prophets; (2) a kind of «emancipation» from Yahweh in increasing dependence upon the maturing structure of the political state; and (3) the dissolution of the old tribal social order with the shift of economic power to the cities, the increasing inability of the farmer, because of the burdens of heavy taxation, to maintain himself as a free man, and the growing concentration of land in the hands of a few wealthy urbanites (cf. Isa.
Coined the «Bling Bishop,» Tebartz - Van Elst, who is known as theologically conservative, has denied any wrongdoing, saying the cost overruns on the renovation are legitimate because surrounding structures had to be protected, including the old city wall.
Travel back in time by touring the city's Historic District featuring several preserved buildings: The Whitaker - Jaynes House serves as the city's local history museum; the Bacon House is one the oldest surviving structures in the area; the Tice House, a charming cage and the Stage Stop Hotel, is currently home to the only California Welcome Center in Orange County.
Meanwhile, group's list of seven included religious structures throughout the city, such as St. Gelasius; the South Side Masonic Temple, 6400 S. Green St.; the East Village neighborhood; the old Cook County Hospital, 1825 W. Harrison St.; the West Loop Mercantile District; the Isabella Building, 21 E. Van Buren St., and Prentice Hospital, 333 E. Superior St.
Grant Park's North Garage will close for 15 months Aug. 2 as city officials accelerate reconstruction of the 46 - year - old structure.
«The city can demolish the old structures, for example, and the Park District can do some of the design and engineering work, all of which would save a lot of money,» Trigg said.
City of Rochester Mayor Lovely Warren said, «In every corner of Rochester, we are demolishing old, dilapidated structures and clearing the way for transformative projects such as Stadium Estates Phase II.
The city is paying the federal government $ 1 for the 80 - year - old structure, a building Mayor Byron Brown says is in pristine condition.
Plans to eliminated the federal historic tax credit as part the $ 1.5 trillion tax reform package being considered by Congress would end a key tool used to revitalize old structures in city's like Troy, officials warned.
He claimed the BOE has rejected his offer of $ 20 million in city funds to help implement such changes, and suggested its old - school machine - based patronage structure is to blame for the resistance.
De Blasio said New York City wasn't subject to the same «old - world» structure that continues to dominate in Albany.
Under the old structure, power was so dispersed — among the mayor, the Board of Education, the chancellor and the community school boards — that it was hard to know whom to blame for the poor performance of many of the city's schools.
They stood at smiling attention, the phalanx of Albany's new political guard and a change from what Sheehan described as the «old school power structure» that had gotten too comfortable, and that has gripped City Hall in some form since Prohibition.
Should the governor, Assembly and State Senate fail to reach a consensus by the month's end, control of the city education system would revert to the old community school boards — widely criticized for their uneven, inefficient and decentralized structure.
A few winding streets below, 26 - year - old Forestal Chamblin walks past the patchwork of corrugated metal and fraying tarp structures at the «ENAF2» camp city, which he and about 300 families who were displaced in the 2010 earthquake still call home.
Researchers at Oxford University recently proposed demolishing 80,000 inefficient homes a year — many of them century - old structures in town and city centers — to achieve the British goal of a 60 percent reduction in greenhouse - gas emissions by 2050.
Trinity follows a slightly old - school design structure, allowing instant access to the world map; scattered across it are a number of towns, cities, dungeons and other landmarks which unlock as you progress through missions.
The Atkinson Clock Tower is the oldest standing structure in the city that sits along Signal Hill Road.
In Dubrovnik, buildings in the Old Town area look old and crumbly but in fact the city government has been rigorous in implementing modern reinforcement techniques to stabilize the ancient structures so do n`t worry too much but be prepared if you feel some tremoOld Town area look old and crumbly but in fact the city government has been rigorous in implementing modern reinforcement techniques to stabilize the ancient structures so do n`t worry too much but be prepared if you feel some tremoold and crumbly but in fact the city government has been rigorous in implementing modern reinforcement techniques to stabilize the ancient structures so do n`t worry too much but be prepared if you feel some tremors.
As the city continued to develop and increase in importance, many defensive walls and other structures were built, along with the magnificent temples that are dotted throughout the Old Town today.
Architect Cristina Martí Crespi masterfully immerses guests in the old quarter of Palma through her classic update of an 18th - century structure that affords stunning views of the city's signature 15th - century Gothic Cathedral.
There are many other historic and beautiful structures that attract hundreds of thousands of tourists to Hyderabad every year, including such must - see attractions in the Old City as Mecca Masjid, Chowmahalla Palace and Golconda Fort.
The 380 - unit Residence Inn Chicago Downtown / Loop is inside a 100 - year - old landmark structure, the Roanoke Building, at Madison and LaSalle Street in the city's financial district.
Explore the Old Capital: Belize City is home to a number of intriguing and important structures.
Hotel University, located right in the cradle of the culture of the region, near the oldest university in the world, next to the Municipal Theatre... Read more and the National Art Gallery, It is a real living in the city for who is looking for an elegant and warm atmosphere that only small structures can offer.
Retro City Rampage — This GTA inspired old - school throwback is a ton of fun on the Vita, and the mission structure makes it perfect to play in spurts while commuting.
Since moving to the states in the early»90s, much of artist Do Ho Suh's work has explored the concepts of space and displacement, most notably through massive installation structures that re-create places such as his childhood home in Korea or an old New York City apartment.
Sculpture Project Echo (2009), Pousttchi's series of twentyfour colour photographs created in the six months during which Echo was on view, is a much - layered portrayal of this black - and - white photo installation's powerful persistence among the iconic buildings that surrounded it, including the Berliner Dom (Berlin Cathedral), the Alte Nationalgalerie (Old National Gallery), the GDR - built Fernsehturm (Television Tower, which, at 368 metres, is still the tallest structure in Germany), and the uncovered foundations of the original Berlin City Palace.
The white geodesic structure, a smaller version of its older sibling in Long Island City, popped up two weeks ago at Beach 94th Street in the Rockaways, right across Shorefront Parkway from the beach, or what's left of it.
Among the venues was an old house in the north of the city whose doors were locked, which Maria Eichhorn purchased for $ 140,000 (about $ 160,000) with the aim of transforming it through a complex legal process into a structure technically owned by no one.
During his year there, he completed a series of paintings that while predicated on structures already emerging in his recent work address the extended history of geometric imagery that he set out to explore in his Rome project, «New Paintings for an Old City
Located in the Basque city of Bilbao in northern Spain, this 32,500 - square - meter structure is made of titanium, glass, and limestone is seamlessly integrated into the urban context along the Nervión River in the old industrial heart of the city.
Leigh Maibes, an agent with RE / MAX Results, helped save one of St. Louis» most historically significant structures: the city's last standing Native American mound, which is some 2,000 years old.
Mercy isn't the only developer to apply the credits to unusual buildings — some recent projects include a plan to convert an old milk pasteurization plant and an old city hall into housing — many of these projects tend to become more prosaic structures, such schools and libraries.
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