"It looked dilapidated," she said.
Nevertheless, all but a few are beginning to look dilapidated.
But as even the best Brutalist buildings aged, water stains and crumbling walls made them look dilapidated.
One moment the city looks dilapidated and ill kempt, then suddenly it's as dashingly aristocratic as sable and tiaras.
Gothic spires point accusingly at the night sky, gargoyles leer down on the alleys below and the city's landmarks and streets look dilapidated and broken.
Public transport may look dilapidated but it functions reasonably well: urban ferries, suburban trains, smoky buses and motorised rickshaws shunt around the city's 14m residents.Driving, however, often means sitting for hours in traffic jams.
They must certainly have looked dilapidated, with their Roman monumental structures serving as quarries for rebuilding elsewhere; early medieval public buildings were, as noted, smaller and also probably fewer in number the cathedral and the local royal palace being the most important ones by far.
She showed me photos of the West Bromwich property: it looked dilapidated and damp.
A block from the Red Hook waterfront stands Brooklyn Crab, a shanty writ large, three stories high and already looking faintly dilapidated, although it was built this past year.
We were looking at dilapidated homes in Braddock, Pennsylvania, the Pittsburgh suburb where he has been mayor since 2005 Fetterman estimated there are 450 of them between his town and the one just north.
I mean, of all the things you could suggest that don't involve drinking, why on Earth would dressing up like a character from a Sci-Fi Channel adaptation of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde and walking around Holborn looking at dilapidated TB clinics be second on the list?
