Sentences with phrase «ramshackle building»

As many as 8,000 animals a year were cared for in that ramshackle building until it was finally sold and torn down in 2004.

On the third day, I took Harriet, our six - year - old daughter, to my father's temporary office — a ramshackle building on stilts a few miles north, along the shore of a swampy, sulphurous asphalt lake.

Howl is a prince with a castle (a walking ramshackle building) which can open up anywhere.

It may look like a run - down old ramshackle building, but White Water Tavern is actually a fun spot to run down Little Rock's locals and get a date.

Spanish - speaking pedestrians are milling about, surrounded by ramshackle buildings.

Their house sits among a cluster of ramshackle buildings at the end of a dirt track.

The whole village is visible from atop his tower, all its ramshackle buildings and tortured denizens whose worship of a rotten greatwood has clearly gone awry.

Imagine the early days of a now - major city in America's west, when only a few ramshackle buildings stood along a dusty street.

Not exact matches

Entire city blocks of ramshackle open - front shops are being replaced by high - rise apartments, office buildings, and shopping centers.

Frequently the churches in poor neighborhoods have ramshackle and dilapidated buildings just like every other building in the area.

A ramshackle, graffiti - covered warehouse in the rough Fruitvale area, «The Ghost Ship» was home to a colorful collection of artists who had built a unique creative community, working and (illegally) living in the space while trying to escape the outrageous rents of the surrounding area.

Crowded into ramshackle apartments or abandoned buildings, these families face hopelessness everyday.

Also remarkable was the House that Hulman Built, the Indianapolis Motor Speedway, which, when he bought it in 1945, was a ramshackle ruin after four years of wartime disuse.

Kapp is the chief mover in the condominium conversion of a 41 - unit courtyard apartment building at 2108 - 18 W. North Ave. and the rehab of the ramshackle four - story Elm Park Hotel right on Wicker Park itself.

According to city records, that building — a ramshackle, two - story building with missing second - floor windows — is owned by Charles Robinson, the brother of 5th Ward council candidate Mark Robinson.

Unfortunately, he buys his home with his heart, not his head, and winds up with dilapidated, ramshackle house that, in the long run is cheaper to tear down and build over.

Base building is also a big part of Metal Gear Survive's gameplay, and there's enjoyment in spending time and resources transforming your ramshackle base into one outfitted with water tanks, areas to grow vegetables and rear livestock, cooking stations, and crafting benches.

The British sports car brand has recently been bought by Chinese giant Geely, and the collection of modern, glass - and - silver - clad buildings is a far cry from the ramshackle setup of» 66.

This is Scion FR - S - a custom downhill racer built for Red Bull's Soapbox Derby, and unlike the cardboard - ramshackle boxes, it actually sports a modicum of high - tech components.

A «riverside ramshackle meets Thai trendy» guesthouse just down the road from higher profile Riverside Guest House, R - Lampang has a bunch of rooms in a couple of buildings.

One place you can't miss is the Pelican Bar, a quirky, ramshackle watering hole built on a sandbar in the middle of the sea, where you can order a Red Stripe and fish that's caught and cooked on - site.

Fidel Castro began a long term regeneration of Havana and the result is beautiful architecture in combination with areas that are quite ramshackle, infused with modern 21st - century buildings.

Ramshackle walls built to protect its residents now allow players ample cover to explore the well - stocked compound.

TWO statements by the artist Donald Judd turned out to be remarkably prescient about the ramshackle - beautiful cast - iron building on Spring Street he bought in 1968 for use as his home and studio.

Romeo Every visit to this space, opened by the artist Aurel Schmidt on the top floor of a ramshackle Lower East Side building, offered a new pleasure: action - packed group portraits on paper by Joseph Geagan, a madcap two - person stunner from Will Sheldon and Gobby, and febrile group shows (including a sculpture display now on the buildings precarious - looking roof).

Barlow employs commonplace materials — wood, plaster, concrete, cardboard, and strips of colorful cloth or tape — in extraordinary, monumental, ramshackle, hand - built structures that expound a dizzying array of novel sculptural forms.

Known for building sprawling assemblage environments that mimic counterculture settings — most famously an entire ramshackle meth lab — the art duo has made a splash at Unlimited with their newest installation, a warren of dusty waiting rooms, Asian fast - food stands (selling cameras made out of rice), and other psychedelic spaces that encircle a printing press for a fictional anarchist culture «zine called Artichoke Underground.

He lived by seasonal fishing alone in ramshackle shelters that he might build himself on the hurricane - menaced East Texas coast.

All this takes place in a ramshackle loft at 2033 Fifth Avenue, near 125th Street — 9,500 square feet of rented, partially renovated space rising two floors above the central Harlem landscape of laundromats, fast - food chains, storefront churches and boarded - up buildings.

The winner was the JellyFish Theatre, a ramshackle, temporary theatre built out of wood pallets last summer for the 2010 London Festival of Architecture by a team of 80 volunteers using only found materials.

Amid the heat, the dust, the squalor, the traffic, the ramshackle dwellings in the City of the Dead, and the row on row of «permanently» partially completed apartments (they pay tax once the building is finished, so they never finish them,), and of course, «bad dates» (beware the pharaoh's revenge), a few days in Cairo only reinforces my view that you have to leave Canada to appreciate it.

Google builds a castle in the clouds out of plain boards and fittings, a trifle ramshackle - seeming but for that reason also unthreatening: hey, this is how you'd do it, if you could, honest, simple — not like that pseudo slick Disneyesque Microsoft machine.