Down the street from the Lama Temple, white metal barricades had been erected along the sidewalks.
For nearly a year, Valencia Street looked like a war zone, with orange and white plastic barricades surrounding open trenches.
Too busy to notice that the promenade of FedEx Field here in the Maryland countryside is surrounded by white concrete barricades.
The brightest colors belong to people already at work: blue and green hard hats, red-pink Day-Glo flags, orange and white striped barricades at a Con-Ed dig.
At his urging, she pried it loose, to find a crudely fashioned little box made out of orange-and-white street barricade — one of Mr. Sachs's favorite sculptural mediums.
One recent afternoon, bottled drinks were stacked in front of the newsstand, as well as a cluster of unused orange-and-white construction barricades.
At Newbury and Dartmouth Streets, Mike Noori, 52, of Atlanta, placed a dozen white roses at a barricade.
Since Sept. 11, the 10,000 people who work in the building have seen security changes: identification badges are now required for entry and visitors are asked to sign in, and red, white and blue concrete barricades surround the building.
On the street, Harpman pointed out several orange-and-white striped street barricades ("They're just everywhere"), and counterweighted fire escapes ("Incredibly beautiful").
The Place de la Sorbonne, the main square of the ancient university that's witnessed many a tear-gassed student, features an exhibit of classic black-and-white scenes of barricades, riot police and running students.
But it isn't long before you start to realise this really isn't the sort of place you'd want to live – "where language is trimmed to be better understood / where those who mistake the road out for the road // to recovery are helped back by a rolling barricade / of white roses and bramble".
