Purvciema Street, No. 10, was imposing for its era: five rooms, two stories of brick encased in yellow stucco and adorned with columns.
The brick wall encasing most of the building was left intact and windows were punched into it.
These days, a barbecue pit -- even in barbecue country -- is most likely an above-ground brick oven encased in steel, about the size of a refrigerator.
In the inner regions of the Leather District that do not face any major roadway, such as along Utica Street, one can find 6 story red brick buildings, encased in an armor of wrought iron fire escape stairs, as shown in Figure 4 below.
One jacket stood out: a transparent plastic parka, below left, encasing bricks of white foam insulation.
Mathematical tiles were added to the exterior, encasing the brick, and four Corinthian pilasters were added to the front.
The building is still there, sort of: it has been stripped of its brick facade and encased by the student center like the proverbial bug in amber.
Mathematical tiles were added to the exterior, brought from Ipswich, encasing the old red brick, and four Corinthian pilasters, made from Roche Abbey stone in Yorkshire, were added to the front.
After the house was occupied by Parliamentary forces during the Civil War, changes were made to the north wing, including encasing the Great Hall in brick, inserting windows, and installing an organ in the Great Hall.
Perched in the the western Himalayas, the town's university, law courts and shopping market had collapsed, encasing hundreds of bodies in tombs of brick, wood and concrete.
