Sentence examples for concrete shops from inspiring English sources

There, in the center of it all, Phuket Town fell away; the formerly opulent Portuguese-Chinese mansions and rows of boxy concrete shops faded as the hot morning sun swooned before clouds of acrid smoke.

The jumble of forlorn Victorian brick buildings, brutalist concrete shops, tatty office blocks and wasteland car parks in the two towns' centres suggest that both ran out of steam in the 1970s.But even though most people voted for mayors, few thought they would make much difference.

Great regions of Victorian and Georgian houses were demolished to make way for roads, hastily built concrete shops, and tower blocks.

The built environment around Coatbridge's town centre is characterised by its mixture of late nineteenth- and early twentieth-century sandstone buildings and late twentieth-century precast concrete shops.

A 1973 concrete shopping mall, felt generally to be an eyesore, is finally to be demolished.

It was bland, concrete shopping malls and drive-through pizza parlours, cookie-cutter housing estates and five-lane highways.

Chinese (mainly Cantonese from Hong Kong) dominate the city, where their characteristic three-to-four-story concrete shop houses intermingle with taller office buildings.

Next week bulldozers will head for Portsmouth and bring down the brutalist Tricorn centre, Owen Luder's appealingly surly concrete shopping complex and car park.

One Friday afternoon, he showed up at the concrete shopping mall in the town center wearing a glossy black hooded coat, a long black skirt over gray sweatpants, green-and-yellow sneakers, and earphones — religious gangster attire.

Rather than create a centre from buildings like other new towns such as Cumbernauld with its hulking concrete shopping precinct, CMK was designed as a centre of broad boulevards edged in expensive Cornish granite and lined with London plane trees.

You might notice the number of new factories, the cheap concrete "shopping malls" with their tile and glass facades and the swarms of Suzuki Mehrans, the tiny four door car which is Pakistan's best-selling vehicle.