The barn has a new roof; the foundation has been repaired, and once the interior was cleaned out, it became Mr. Haussler's studio.
A committee was already formed, he added, to investigate the assassination of the general, who was once the interior minister in the Qaddafi government, though the spokesman referred questions about the committee to the public prosecutor.
The same day Jean-Pierre Chevènement, leader of the left-wing Citizens Movementt and once the interior minister in Lionel Jospin's current coalition government, launched his own presidential campaign before a throng of over 5,000.
This delicate fusion of contemporary art and classical architecture is sublime for reasons all of its own, but helped in no small part by Eric Parry Architects' outstanding lottery-assisted renovation of this once dank interior.
Mr. Khatami, a reformer who has lead a movement for greater political and civil freedom in Iran since his landslide election in 1997, has proven powerless to prevent the arrest of dozens of his allies -- his once outspoken interior minister, Abdollah Nouri, reformist journalists, student leaders and political activists.
One company official also admitted that Gates once sent interior designers to the building to look at creating a space of his own on one of the building's top floors but then, perhaps for security reasons, did not rent the space.
An imposing mansion stood across the road; its once-impressive interior was in disarray.
Twenty years ago, a Streetscapes profile of McKim, Mead & White's magnificent 1898 headquarters for the New York Life Insurance Company remarked on the sorry condition of its once-grand interiors.
Once in the interior room, he closed the door.
The interior, once lined with red flocked velvet, was faded, greasy, and plastered with duct tape.
