We saw evidence of Confucius, the educator, at the small Apricot Altar pavilion in the center of one courtyard, a site where he once lectured to his disciples.
A large Elizabethan-style tower housing the main stairway is also set within the courtyard but sited to the front behind the reception rooms.
Right in front of the lounge bar window, the courtyard was a site of utter chaos - thousands filled the street, as the riot police outside the Shangri-La hotel were violently pushing protesters further into the side streets with tear gas and water cannons.
Just two years before, the Parkside courtyards were the site of total baby-stroller gridlock on beautiful autumn days — welfare moms and their toddlers hanging out in the sun.
Two sides of the courtyard are a building site of five hollow storeys.
Two women who live in a building across a courtyard from the shooting site have told investigators that they saw Mr. Ferguson and an officer struggling, but did not see the shooting, investigators said.
Around 190 architects were involved in designing the new settlements, in-fill sites, small courtyard housing and – most famously – the city's pioneering "superblocks".
"New York's Rent Collection Courtyard" is the on-site, temporary re-creation (repeating one that earned Cai the International Award of the Venice Biennale in 1999), in clay, by ten Chinese artists, of a vast socialist-realist sculptural tableau, from 1965.
A project is under way to preserve the courtyard as a national heritage site.
(During that time a temporary venue, the Courtyard Theatre, located on the site of the company's The Other Place studio theatre, served as the RSC's home).
