A contractor makes a wrong move and a pipe in a big co-op building is punctured, leaving all of the residents without gas for five months.
An 80-year-old man drove his car into an apartment building Wednesday, puncturing gas and water lines, which prompted an evacuation of the building, police said.
BAGHDAD — A team of six gunmen and suicide bombers dressed in police uniforms attacked a provincial council's offices in northeastern Iraq on Tuesday, the latest in a string of brazen assaults against police and government buildings aimed at puncturing the country's uneasy security.
PAGE A11 MILITANTS KILL 7 IN IRAQ A team of six gunmen and suicide bombers dressed in police uniforms attacked a provincial council's offices in northeastern Iraq, the latest in a string of brazen assaults against police and government buildings aimed at puncturing the country's uneasy security.
A Unesco World Heritage Site since 1983, Bern's old town – in which I stayed at the 150-year-old but completely made-over Schweizerhof Bern hotel, ineffably Swiss despite now being Qatari-owned – is dominated by stocky 18th- and 19th-century stone buildings, their pitched roofs punctured by rather romantic-looking garrets.
The studio building is also punctured by big circular windows.
The building is being punctured to create individual front doors for tenants, supplanting the original design that funneled tenants through a common lobby.
City officials had long suspected they might find additional human remains in these adjacent structures, including 90 West Street and 130 Cedar Street, office buildings that were struck and punctured by plane parts and sections of the twin towers.
In Bab al-Aziziya, the colonel's fortified compound, buildings have been wrecked and bunkers punctured by NATO bombs.
Dozens of cranes puncture the summer sky here as Chinese construction crews build new apartment and office buildings, softening the old Soviet image of the city.
