The headquarters of probably the most powerful charity in the world, and one of the most quietly influential international organisations of any sort, currently stand between a derelict restaurant and a row of elderly car repair businesses.
Unlike the other projects around town, their work, "Fight for Your Neighborhood," stands in front of a derelict restaurant — a shuttered facade that once belonged to the San Francisco institution Original Joe's — rather than behind the safety of glass.
The Garage, first located in a Constructivist-era landmark bus garage near the Olympic Stadium in Moscow, is awaiting a move next year to a new home, a derelict restaurant building in Gorky Park being redesigned by the architect Rem Koolhaas.
The crumbling concrete skeleton of the 1960s Seasons of the Year restaurant, derelict for two decades, has been reborn as Garage, the city's ambitious new museum of contemporary art.
Let's look at the evidence that this might be a joke, starting with the actual words "authentic vibes" being said in a breathy, I-just-climaxed-by-oiling-my-bike-chain voice-over; the blonde girl at 0 25 pulling a peace sign opposite a derelict-looking Thai restaurant; the words "together we laugh at conformity" being said without being immediately followed by a massive, honking laugh.
One of the more notable successes in this category over the past season on or just off Broadway was scored by Eric Bogosian and his "Drinking in America". Running a scant 90 minutes, the production featured Mr. Bogosian doing solo turns in a variety of characterizations - Hollywood agent, salesman, Greek restaurant owner, street tough, derelict.
That's why you'll find a James Beard Awarestauranted restaurant in a formerly derelict rail hotel in northern Arizona, a luxe resort among the wildflowers of a southern California state park, and wineries in the high desert plains of Western Washington.
The state-sponsored tourism body Habaguanex channels profits from hotels, restaurants and tours into restoring derelict buildings and streets, as well as seeding social projects and community facilities.
But it's the night-life scene a 10-minute tram ride away from Lower Vitkovice, on Stodolni Street (stodolni.cz), where dozens of bars and restaurants have emerged from a derelict strip of 19th-century warehouses, that has become the town's biggest tourist draw.
are well represented at this bar and restaurant in what was a previously derelict tenement.
My vague memories are of empty streets, the derelict cathedral, basic food in a canteen-type restaurant on the Spree [the local river], and out of curiosity I visited the street which had my name, Sebastianstraße, which was brutally chopped in two by the Wall".
