We spent a few hours at Praia, on a tiny pebbled beach where swimmers dived from the pontoon into the sapphire water, and chatted to Paolo Sandulli, an artist who had turned an old cylindrical stone defence tower – built in the Middle Ages to ward off the Saracens – into a studio.
Now protected heritage sites, one of them is found in the Coalhouse Fort in Essex, a defense station originally built in the 1860s to ward off any sea attack.
Here in Onomichi, the ward for older inmates was built in the mid-1980s, long before the boom in the older population.
Two new grass fields, usable for baseball and soccer, are being built in the Bronx, as well as two on Wards Island and one each in Queens and Staten Island.
In 1993, this conjunction of people and ideas led Lowe to purchase — with his artist-comrades including James Bettison, Jesse Lott, Bert Samples and George Smith — a series of 22 abandoned wooden shotgun houses in the Third Ward, tenant farmer shacks built in the 1930s and typical of the African-American housing then found in the South.
One week since a Chicago alderman's opposition to a new Chick-fil-A restaurant being built in his ward became a national story, the backlash hasn't exactly dissipated.
Ross may have helped Kane secure his casino plan, but it's not being built in Ross' ward, so he wants some concessions from the mayor to ensure his community benefits from this project as well.
The Giant Wild Goose Pagoda, built in a city ward of what was southeastern Chang'an, is among the exceptions.
City officials announced in August that they had struck a preliminary agreement with George Washington University Hospital to run a hospital that would be built in Ward 8.
As Gray left his polling place, Alexander voter Brian Boger challenged him to account for the Walmart the former mayor promised to build in Ward 7. Boger, 55, volunteered for Gray's mayoral campaign but lost trust in him after the campaign-finance controversy.
