The buildings, with a circular shape and a flat roof, were made of mud, sun-dried mudbricks and stone.
The main redesign was to the roof of the main buildings, changing them from a flat roof to a split pitch roof.
An investigation found the blaze was started accidentally by workers using a blowtorch who had been carrying out repairs to a flat roof.
Guernsey Police had to close Les Banques earlier from the Red Lion towards Admiral Park because a flat roof blew off a building near the Red Lion pub.
The property finally reopened as the Hotel Parq Central in 2010 and was listed on the National Register of Historic Places, thanks to its railway history and impressive Italianate architecture, featuring arched windows, a flat roof and exterior baluster staircases.
In the police interviews Ms Smith told detectives she was hysterical and was outside in her underwear and was given a blanket to cover herself while her partner got onto a flat roof at the back of the premises with other people to try to help the family above escape.
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At the Rain Centre, Mr Sekhar, a physics professor, demonstrates that rain falling on a typical Chennai flat roof can be gathered for use by the household in the kitchen and bathroom, and the rest channelled into wells where it can be used or go to replenish the water table.
Roundhouses will have a flat garden roof that can incorporate a deck.
Although cleared by one court - held under sharia or Islamic law - in the nearby emirate of Ras-al-Khaimah, she has been tried for a second time, under civil law, on charges of possessing 50g cocaine found hidden in the roof space of her flat.
Aside from ultra-lux furnishings, a bounty of Jacuzzis and enough flat-screen LCD panels to tile a roof, Connor says "Solemates" also lets guests keep fit in style.
The construction site consists of tidy stacks of flat-packed, prefabricated wall units, roof panels and other jumbo components trucked from Michigan and labeled and numbered like parts for a giant Ikea Akurum cabinet.
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To that end, Nissan incorporated a glass roof, to let in daylight, and a high-resolution seven-inch flat panel monitor for watching videos, using the Internet, or controlling cabin temperature, lighting, etc.
By converting a five-storey "tong lau" -- an old Chinese building -- with solar panels, a turfed roof and energy efficient appliances, Khan also is keen to emphasize that his eco-friendly flat is as much about preserving the old and a sense of heritage as it is about being green.
From the top of the tower you look down on to a web of canals, on to the little roof terraces that the people of the city are so fond of cultivating, and out across the flat landscape towards distant wind farms.
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