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Raised sidewalk with stone curbs beside a 2000-year-old paved road in Pompeii, Italy. A sidewalk (North American English) [1] [2] [3] or pavement (British English) is a path along the side of a road. Usually constructed of concrete, pavers, brick, stone, or asphalt, it is designed for pedestrians.
Early ideas for a campus expansion began in 1972, with special attention to jail overcrowding and a potential consolidation of jails in the Twin Cities [g] and county prison facilities. One plan was to build a fourth-story on the courthouse to house an expanded jail cell area, but it was found "unfeasible" from an engineering perspective.
Yamasaki described the plaza as "a mecca, a great relief from the narrow streets and sidewalks of the Wall Street area." [86] He also incorporated other features of Arabic architecture into the building design, including pointed arches, interweaving tracery of prefabricated concrete, a minaret like flight tower, and arabesque patterns. [87]
A "face brick" is a higher-quality brick, designed for use in visible external surfaces in face-work, as opposed to a "filler brick" for internal parts of the wall, or where the surface is to be covered with stucco or a similar coating, or where the filler bricks will be concealed by other bricks (in structures more than two bricks thick).
The first of these was the Ipswich Croquet Club, which was founded in 1902 and was allotted space for a court in the park. The Ipswich Bowling Club was founded in 1910 and opened a green for play in the park in 1912. A clubhouse was built for them to the design of W Haenke in 1914. This was removed to make way for a new clubhouse in the 1960s. [1]
Originally, the theater screened Francis Thompson's short film To Be Alive!, and the rest of the Johnson's Wax Pavilion contained shoeshine machines, a home-information center, and a playground. After the fair, the theater was relocated to Racine, and two brick pavilions designed by Taliesin Associated Architects were built. The Golden Rondelle ...
RNA Administration Building (c. 1970) – a two-storey building constructed with a concrete frame and brick and sheet material infill panels. The building is designed as a series of vertical elements with a continuous band of windows at each level and a large projecting fascia concealing the roof.
The nomination recorded the building as maintaining a rich, historical design and was the only building in Chehalis to contain the Georgian Revival style. [15] Chehalis was awarded a post office before its larger, neighboring twin city, Centralia, which completed their federal post office in 1937 despite a census of over 8,000. Chehalis, with a ...