In some cases, Deco styling was applied to traditional courtyard house structures.
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The digs: An 8, 800-square-foot Gwathmey Siegel-designed spread with a courtyard, guest house and swimming pool built on 150 feet of shoreline.
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As a weapons squad leader with Delta Company, 2nd Battalion, 75th Ranger Regiment, Staff Sergeant Petry moved to clear the courtyard of a house that potentially contained high-value combatants.
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Designed by celebrated architect Rafael Vinoly, the home features floor-to-ceiling windows that look out to the Belgium block courtyard surrounding the main house.
The beautiful colonial house with ample courtyard and garden space is still a centre for Mayan research and a base to sell handicrafts produced in outlying indigenous communities.
In the main Beijing office, a homely red-painted house in a courtyard littered with bicycles, visitors would be handed staff cards printed on recycled paper and given metal reusable chopsticks, together with a lecture on how much of China's virgin forest was disappearing for wooden chopsticks every year.
Mr Cowan said there was lighting at the courtyard at the front of the house but none beyond that.
But have you seen the one at Somerset House, in the courtyard of the patrician building of the 18th century?
Three SEALs in front broke off to clear the guesthouse as the remaining nine blasted through another gate and entered an inner courtyard, which faced the main house.
They intend to renovate three buildings around a central courtyard on Pembroke Street, called Rochester House.
The main house and guest house surround a large central courtyard featuring manicured grounds and pool and hot tub.
The couple say they were drawn to the design for the primary house after building a vacation courtyard home in Florida.
The steps up to the house bring you to a beautiful courtyard and striking entrance.
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The main house is built around an interior courtyard adorned with an imported antique limestone fountain and a cast-iron fireplace.
In the 1980s, the county roofed the courtyard in order to air-condition the house, to preserve its fabrics and furnishings, and to make it more suitable for events.
Divided into three wings, the main house is built around a Belgium stone courtyard.
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The house itself had an open-air courtyard, intimately connected to the gardens and the sea by large rooms that could be opened in such a way that no walls interrupted the flow of people or air from the patios to the courtyard, which was filled with sun and palm trees.
Set around a sweet courtyard, hung unsurprisingly with red lanterns, Red Lantern House is located down a hutong (old alleyway).
The material chosen as the "floor" of the courtyard can also help make the area feel like part of the house.
The house is a nineteenth-century Ottoman complex, built around a courtyard with a tiled pool.
Their three-room bicycle garage is made of the same materials, and has floor-to-ceiling glass sliding doors in the fitness room that open to the same courtyard as the floor-to-ceiling sliding glass doors in the main house's dining room.
Dine in the inner courtyard on fresh snapper or pomfret, avail yourself of an Ayurvedic massage courtesy of the in-house masseur, or take a quick dip in the sparkling garden-side pool.
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