Another popular gathering place is Plaza de Santisima Trinidad, a semi-circular park built in 1643.
The bar has served as the unofficial post-festival gathering place for event hosts and emcees.
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The stores act as a gathering place, with an important role in the community.
The room is typically utilized by the family as a gathering place before or after meals.
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Eventually we noticed that hawker centres have become some kind of social gathering place where family and friends come.
It once again feels like the gathering place it has been for royalty, world leaders and business titans.
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Either way, I wound up at the city-funded Gathering Place Homeless Drop-In Center.
It became the global epicenter for scientific knowledge and a gathering place for the most brilliant minds of that era.
It should be a snuggery of privacy and reflection, but also a gathering place that strengthens my engagement with other people.
At the family's main gathering place in East Lost Angeles, a memorial altar still burns brightly in the linoleum-floored living room.
But the promise of that glorified gathering place on her glittering new cable network, OWN: Oprah Winfrey Network, has fallen short of expectations.
In that way, he hopes to provide a gathering place, and a voice, for mourners who may not be able to attend the real-life memorial service.
Mainly established to serve as an advocate service, the union building also became a social gathering place, and eventually the tradition of late-night jam sessions was born.
Edinburgh Airport, for instance, is attractive to incoming visitors as much as a gathering place for outbound - not least today, as the planes head south with happy English rugby fans.
For centuries it was the bastion of male privilege, the gathering place for men away from their women, a place where men could go to freely indulge in The Bull Session.
"There is not a political visit in Orlando that doesn't include a stop at a Puerto Rican community center or gathering place, " said Ana Navarro, a Republican fundraiser and strategist from Miami.
And apparently London is a gathering place for those who have been thrown out of Russia or Eastern Europe, and maybe it was a rivalry that grew out of activity outside the country.
And it became a gathering place for people who had known him over decades - from teachers, union leaders, vice chancellors to those who had been students with him at Cambridge in the 1970s.
On a recent snowy evening, at least a dozen people huddled over plates of food in Graziano's tent, which has become a gathering place where displaced residents can exchange greetings and get daily updates.
Hundreds of Sikhs, Hindus, Christians, Buddhists, Jains and Jews convened for the interfaith prayer meeting, held at the north end of Union Square, which has become a popular gathering place for mourners since the attacks.
On the way to the Holiday Inn, which was the main gathering place for the international press corps during the siege, both sides of the street were crowded with families walking under a warm afternoon sun.
La Jetee, named after the 1962 Chris Marker sci-fi film, is a gathering place for disciples of French cinema and the Nouvelle Vague movement, while at Bar Plastic Model, punters can wear Mario hats and play old Nintendo 64 video games.
Different social media sites gain a reputation for being the gathering place for certain groups Tumblr has fashion, Posterous has actors, Pinterest has food and crafts, Facebook and Twitter have, you know, most things.
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Rami Abdel Rahman, its director, told the Agence France-Presse news agency that a group of rebels used an area near the site of Sunday's air strike as a gathering place, but that a group of houses some distance away had been hit.
"In densely populated cities where space is at a such a premium, if you want to build something new and innovative, the only place to go is up, " says Thompson Toronto project architect Rob Cadeau, who turned the hotel's rooftop into a gathering place by designing a bar adjacent to the pool area.
Accounts of the deadly attacks last fall in Mumbai, India, the May 2008 earthquake in China and last week's plane crash show what used to be just a virtual gathering place to communicate pet peeves or plans for the weekend has evolved into a go-to spot for eyewitness news -- sometimes even before mainstream media has had time to crack the story.
They briefed the Cobra committee (made up on this occasion by on-the-ball, internet-savvy actors playing the prime minister, culture secretary and home secretary) on response strategies to the threat, analysed a simulated Twitter feed to gauge the social media response to the issue, and discussed and debated strategies for managing the attack on a chat site called the Und3rgr0und - the gathering place of choice for Incognito hacktivists.
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The ancient Hindu gathering takes place in the northern state of Uttar Pradesh, attracting tens of millions of people.
The sporting arenas have been built and tested, and the main Olympic gathering-place, on the site of an old abattoir at Homebush, west of Sydney, is ready for the opening ceremony on September 15th.
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