The day's first major performer was Wayne Wonder, who croons R&B songs over reggae beats, and it turned out you could hear his set just fine from the courtyard behind the stadium, where food vendors had set up shop.
The Staatsgalerie is a building of sequences and effects: of ramps, a glass wall which switches for the hell of it from vertical to sloping, and a fine circular sculpture courtyard, followed by some ordinary, efficient toplit galleries.
They are free, apart from a monthly contribution of around $30 for food.Our local kindergarten has a fine playground in the courtyard, with a bouncy surface to ease the descent of tumbling toddlers.
There were dozens of people in the courtyard, on a fine, warm night, listening among the potted palms.
The main courtyard is a fine spot to sip a beer or glass of wine from the small bar, read or just sit in the vintage metal lawn chairs and tables under a canvas canopy.
For twenty-seven years I have been the concierge at number 7, rue de Grenelle, a fine hôtel particulier with a courtyard and private gardens, divided into eight luxury apartments …" rue de Grenelle, 7th arrondissement The brand-new Eiffel Tower – the glory of the 1889 Universal Exhibition – is at the centre of this dazzling murder mystery set in late 19th-century Paris.
ANY day is a fine day for visiting the garden courtyard of Lever House, that midcentury modernist "Mad Men" masterpiece that was beautifully rejuvenated a decade ago.
That night, in the Khan-e Tabatabei, a fine old house where the central courtyard became a restaurant for the evening, the family at the next table introduced themselves.
The central tower house, or keep, is surrounded by a 15th-century courtyard wall with "particularly fine" defensive features.
There is also fine food at the Michelin-starred Teufelhof, or Devil's Courtyard, and decent food in the courtyard of Au Violon and on the Rhine at the Hotel Krafft.
