Sentence examples for courtyard blocks from inspiring English sources

Cheap land gave sites for the detached houses of 19th-century Chicago, just as dear land was producing the tall, multi-family, bourgeois courtyard blocks of Paris.

It's not just the rigid, coarse and repetitive courtyard blocks that rise like 10-storey cliff-faces – it's the gaping boulevards that sweep between them.

It follows the ancient Greek street grid, but does so in stridently modern form with a series of grand vaulted arcades and interlocking courtyard blocks.

The deep beer garden was created when Allied bombs blasted away the street frontage of the courtyard block.

One of BIG's most ambitious hybrid building types yet, this New York apartment block, due for completion in 2016, takes the form of a "courtscraper" – the love child of a European courtyard block and a Manhattan skyscraper.

Bruce built a second gothic tower to mirror the existing one built by James V between 1528 and 1532, and created the courtyard block in a restrained classical style.

They have covered the courtyards, blocking out the sky.

Following the success of the Mountain Dwellings in attracting residents to the bleak wasteland of Ørestad (a new district south of the city), the 8 House builds upon Ingels's mountain-making tendencies, taking two courtyard housing blocks and knotting them into a great undulating loop.

A court blocked the new owner's attempts to prettify the courtyard with a new shed for the rubbish bins, and by insulating the walls.

In an interview at the company's modest offices on the ground floor of a courtyard one block from the Arc de Triomphe, Mr. Chamboredon, true to the style of a start-uppeur, rushed across the courtyard to open the office himself, appearing tieless, in a casual jacket.

I left the apartment and headed out for the courtyard, a few blocks away; I wasn't going to come back without that ring.