Her family lives in a small concrete-and-brick house near the Delhi airport, where her father works as a laborer.

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This can be seen to represent the allure of real estate in a city composed almost entirely of brick and concrete and stainless steel that is nonetheless constantly in motion.

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Mr. Lichter, president of Industrial Realty Group LLC, is planning to convert the 1.7 million-square-foot hodgepodge of brick and concrete buildings into hotel rooms, housing, modern office space and other uses.

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When I next tapped on a blurry concrete-and-brick step in the background of the photo, it suddenly became sharp instead of the cup and a crack in the concrete that hadn't been visible appeared.

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Mies's large drawings of his crystalline visions of faceted and curved glass skyscrapers of 1921 and 1922 were quickly followed by studies for brick and concrete country houses, prescient and perfect in their assured abstraction.

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Located close to tourist hot spots Ipanema and Leblon, it is the largest favela in the city with an estimated 250, 000 residents living in the vertiginous, tight wall of brick and concrete housing that covers the entire hillside.

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In the foot-well and the wheel arches, scientists found traces of a distinctive mix of chalk, brick dust and concrete used to cover the road leading to the ditch.

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The large, spare rooms of the brick warehouses and concrete silos, where contemporary art and unusual antiques mix with farm tables and oversize slipcovered sofas, encapsulate his vision in its most elevated form.

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There is a gray concrete bathroom with rough bits of exposed brick.

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