A reconstruction of a gulag dormitory surrounds a Venetian gondola mooring — a tripod of rough-hewn wooden posts, chained together — with new versions, in Russian and English, of a banner from a 1978 Collective Actions performance draped across the walls.
I remember sitting in the common room of my dormitory, surrounded by my friends, with my head in my hands.
We kept going north, the factory towns coming one after the other: dormitories surrounded by fences, smokestacks sprouting in dirty clumps.
In 1990, the squat beige and gray dormitories surrounded an open area of broken concrete and trampled grass.
At the greenhouse complex that employs North Koreans, the workers' dormitory was surrounded by a seven-foot-high concrete wall.
A third night of student protests outside Tehran University's dormitories exploded into the surrounding middle-class neighborhoods early today, with large gangs of students fighting running street battles against vigilantes armed with sticks and chains.
I wanted information about the surrounding environment, dormitories, student activities, and last but not least support services.
Thousands of rooms in school buildings and dormitories collapsed across Sichuan and surrounding provinces during the May 12 quake.
Across the bay, fancy yachts and speed boats crowd the shores of the Ilha, a once almost deserted strip of sand used mainly by poor fishermen, on which smart restaurants and nightclubs for the new elite are now springing up.In the surrounding suburbs, brand-new dormitory towns are rising from the bush, relieving the city-centre crush.
Managers stay in adjacent dormitories while workers come in from surrounding areas on white school buses.
There are, he said, plans under way for Brooklyn Law School dormitories and an apartment building in the surrounding blocks.
