Sentence examples for brick shell from inspiring English sources

The couple now inhabit a bright new box inside an old brick shell.

They built a school from scratch – not a brick shell, but a curriculum, lesson plans, examinations, certification.

The medium-sized dance facility occupies the brick shell of the old Elgin Theatre at 8th Ave .and 19th St.

Though the building's brick shell was intact, the windows were gone, broken by firefighters or melted away.

Many developers agree it is an attractive proposition — if it were not for the giant brick shell that must be preserved.

By the time it closed, sold by the American Sugar Refining Company, the refinery's brick shell was admired as a monument of industrial architecture and received landmark status.

By communal agreement, the brick shells of the former classrooms are reserved for storage and to house the very sick.

Brick shells and wooden splinters were all that remained of some homes, and railroad cars toppled from tracks attested to the power of a twister.

The rest — those mansions where Ottoman officials had once entertained foreign emissaries, and those of Abdülhamit's daughters — I remember only as dilapidated brick shells with gaping windows and broken staircases darkened by bracken and untended fig trees.

Inside these sturdy brick shells were cathedral-like spaces 11, 14 and 15 metres high (the feature that attracted Hirst to buy them in 2002 and use them briefly as his own studio).

The rest - those mansions where Ottoman officials had once entertained foreign emissaries, and those of the19th-century sultan Abdülhamit II's daughters - I remember only as dilapidated brick shells with gaping windows and broken staircases darkened by bracken and untended fig trees; to remember them is to feel the deep sadness they evoked in me as a young child.