The news filtered through the neighborhoods where the five men had been living, a patchwork of slums with buildings constructed of corrugated iron sheets and covered in blue tarpaulins, squeezed between neighborhoods with glass office towers and luxury apartment buildings.
Instead of tower after tower shining at all hours — the World Trade Center stayed aglow long after its occupants went home — the skyline is becoming a patchwork of sparsely sparkling buildings decorated with ornamentally lighted tops.
So the settlers continue building a patchwork of communities to try to preclude the drawing of a border between Israel and a future Palestinian state.
The partly demolished building — a patchwork of sealed rooms full of asbestos and closed stairwells — was allowing the fire to jump floors, up and down.
The square mile itself is a patchwork of conservation areas and listed buildings.
IF you enter this city from Interstate 280 by way of First Street, you first pass through a patchwork of overgrown lots, nondescript brick buildings and an occasional barbed wire fence.
Though office space has always coexisted with the mart's showrooms, the contraction in the gift and residential design industries during the recession left the building with a patchwork of empty spaces, Mr. Falanga said.
By the end of the 19th century critics were murmuring that the nation's front lawn had deteriorated into a patchwork of unrelated parks, gloomy red-brick buildings and dilapidated train sheds.
As in Oklahoma City, the downtown here is a bit gap-toothed -- it's largely a patchwork of parking lots interrupted by the occasional building -- but has some extraordinary Art Deco structures worth looking at, including the Kress Building (1932), the landmark Santa Fe Building (1929) and the late-Deco Greyhound bus terminal (built in 1949, it now also houses offices).
A patchwork of laws that are largely untested, and practical obstacles to building cases in war zones, have all but insulated contractors from accountability.
