It begins in timely fashion, set amidst a North Devon seaside community under threat of flood.
"Versailles," which Mr. Gill will direct, is set amidst the negotiations of the Treaty of Versailles.
This contemporary, unconventional, yet elegantly styled boutique hotel is set amidst historical buildings directly in the heart of Vienna.
The BBC's Radio Three stage is one of smallest but tastiest, set amidst the trees of the Arboretum, with its masseurs, healers, Gong Baths.
Set amidst the woodlands and stream valley south of Jadwin Hall, the building is viewed here from across Washington Road looking over Streicker Bridge.
Also included in this 16-garden display will be a steeplechase obstacle course set amidst hackberry, Eastern red cedar and sourwood trees.
Fingers of rock - the now solidified cores of ancient volcanoes – emerge from patches of forest, themselves set amidst a sea of sugar cane that almost encircles the land between the coast and the villages of the central plateau.
Puddles on pavement and buildings set amidst parks give a sense of wearying labor and burdensome culture that resist the ravages of time — and make sense of the protagonist's stifled cry for a lighter, airier, more ethereal life.
Set amidst orange, cherry and pomegranate trees, Can Sa Roca sits on a hillside overlooking the town of San Antonio — but far enough away that the beat of the nightclubs' music cannot be heard.
Even more celebrated is the 1942 self-portrait Birthday (held by the Philadelphia Museum of Art), in which Tanning's elegant, bare-breasted figure, set amidst infinitely receding doors, is juxtaposed with a hippogriff seemingly borrowed from a painting by Ingres.
And not so long ago the main landmark of Abu Dhabi, today a glittering Miami-scape of towers and boulevards set amidst lush parks, was a single scraggly acacia tree.Numbers tell an equally dramatic tale.
