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...design for the Inn includes red brick, pitch grooves and dormer windows and is sized "to respond to the character of a transitional building between the residential and commercial areas" of Harvard Square, Bechtel says...
...brick and surface details such as window trim and balconies is designed to make the Inn blend into the surrounding traditional buildings, Bechtel says. "It is intended to relate to the existing houses along Mass. Ave. as well as the river," he says...
...last." Although Camden Yards is designed by the same firm that created Comiskey, here the upper deck is a graceful incline, not a mountain climb with Sherpa guides. Downtown Baltimore is always in view, from the Bromo-Seltzer clock tower behind left field to the massive, restored brick warehouse in right field that will become a 460-ft.-from-home-pl ate target. (Already the Orioles are searching for lefthanded sluggers with "warehouse power.") The homage to old ball parks can be seen in such < retro touches as the exposed steel support beams, the irregular configuration of the outfield angles...
Here I was the first black person to live in my immediate neighborhood. I came home one day and a brick mason, who was black, was redoing the walk. And I said hello. And he said, "Can I help you?" with a bit of hostility in his voice. And I said, "You are helping me. You're fixing my walk." And he looked dumbfounded and said, "Is this your house?" And I said, "Yeah." And he said, "Do the white people know that you bought this house?" I said, "Of course!" And he said, "Of course. I bet they know...
...money will pay for "preliminary engineering" on a project to turn Miami's Biscayne Boulevard into "an exotic garden for people to enjoy the richness of city life," with 90-ft.-wide medians sculpted with tropical plants, broad sidewalks and miles of brick walkways. Why Miami doesn't raise the funds locally was not explained...