At its south end, on the corner of Eastgate Street, is a bank whose ground storey is built in stone, and behind this leading up St Werburgh Street, the ground storey consists of shop fronts.
The upper storey, whose timber floor is now missing, comprised three more apartments, including one over the stair.
Their efforts were focused on two buildings: a financial services block whose four storeys had concertinaed and the offices of the local Canterbury Television (CTV), which also housed an English-language school.
His 2009 Shangri-la is an urban oasis, whose 61 storeys encompass hotel rooms, live-work units and private residences, and a master plan that includes a grocery store and a public art site.
Details: 1857.no Leave the capital to its 35 million inhabitants; hop on a westbound bullet train, and in less than an hour you'll reach Shizuoka's sublime Izu Photo Museum, whose single-storey stone building (designed in collaboration with photographer Hiroshi Sugimoto) sits in a serene sculpture garden.
In their black, bulletproof vests and black helmets, the team are disconcerted to be getting their briefing here, in the vehicle, rather than back at base: they are to launch a raid on a 15-storey building whose top floor is a drugs factory run by sinister crime lord Tama (Ray Sahetaphy).
As an undergraduate at Columbia, he had made close friends with a number of writers-to-be, including John Berryman and Thomas Merton, who famously became a Trappist monk, and whose "The Seven Storey Mountain" sold six hundred thousand copies for Harcourt, Brace in its first seven months.
He likes the old standbys in his neighborhood, like the Russ & Daughters specialty food shop on Houston Street, as well as the new restaurants, like Lucien and Le Pere Pinard, and clubs, like Torch, where he heard Deanna Storey, whose CD is playing as he speaks.
Four pints and a couple of shots down, I gather myself in Smiths of Smithfield, a four-storey cafe-cocktail bar-restaurant whose ground floor serves breakfasts from seven, and alcohol from eight.
The central lobby is lit by a over-storey whose windows actually open (far rarer than it should be), and protected from the sun by automatic blinds.
