But despite the faded facades and vacant lots that scatter the Portuguese capital, the music emerging from between the cracks is sharp and modern, fusing contemporary African and European influences with a playful fluency unique to the city.
The vibrant garden stands in stark contrast to the overgrown lawns and decrepit facades of vacant row homes nearby, a source of frustration for Bonner.
As vacant storefronts and rundown facades give way to new shops with eye-catching designs, many involved with the downtown revival think the area has positive momentum on its side.
While the building sat vacant, vandals tagged the limestone facade with graffiti, and chunks of the first-floor facade were stripped off.
The sheet had been tacked to the facade of a vacant storefront, and was covered with condolence notes written with a felt-tip pen.
PARIS — Chiseled into the stone facade of the vacant Second Empire building at 8, rue de Londres here is the name of the French national railroad, a former occupant.
When Sunset and Gordon was approved, city officials called for the facade of the vacant Spaghetti Factory restaurant building to be preserved and incorporated into the residential tower.
These interventions occur where three unique physical characteristics of Atlampa meet: vacant spaces, blank walls and facades that face these vacant spaces, and expansive roofscapes provided by large industrial buildings.
The expansion calls for expanding west into a vacant lot behind historic building facades on Colorado that have been preserved.
Today, it boasts a quaint downtown of brick facades that mixes a few vacant storefronts with a diner, a bakery and a pawnshop with a big sign in the window advertising guns and ammo, not far from the NRA studio.
By the time Mr. Luther, 58, the manager of a manufacturing company, moved to Binghamton, the castle had been vacant for more than five years and its facade was crumbling — a waste, he thought, of an architectural gem.
