Sentence examples for old courtyard from inspiring English sources
One occupies an old courtyard, its flat roof crowned with a pair of skylights.
She hangs around near the old courtyard until Stefan notices her.
The theme was Angels and Devils, and the old courtyard house was a red-draped vision of Hell.
When it comes to coffee and cakes, try the wonderful old courtyard of Kronhusbodarna (Kronhusgatan 1D), in the one of the city's most historic areas.
Modern buildings and old courtyard houses stand adjacently in a complex network of intimate alleyways which lays over a Roman grid plan.
A Chicago developer, the MCL Companies, found a better solution: a 26-story tower in the old courtyard next to the hospital, itself converted to high-priced condos.
On a recent night, about 20 cricket masters, members of two neighborhood teams from the loosely organized Beijing Cricket Society, met at an old courtyard-style house for a friendly match.
Others complain that too many foreign architects are being showcased, at the expense of China's home-grown talent, that Chinese elements are being lost — like Beijing's old courtyard-style homes — and that overaggressive development is littering the landscape with modern monstrosities.
I have stood in shadowy old courtyards and between gleaming office blocks, weeping as I listen.
Within the walls here, families continued living in old courtyards — some within the once thriving banks.
The China Daily reported that in Beijing alone, 4.43m square metres (1,100 acres) of old courtyards had been demolished since 1990 – equivalent to around 40% of the downtown area.
