Old stone farmhouses overlook terraced fields, fed by mountain rains.
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Terrassen generally suggests that the grapes came from terraced vineyards.
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The house has a large, terraced garden in the back.
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The listing includes a heated saltwater pool in the terraced backyard.
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El Cantri's pastel-painted terraced houses are showing signs of neglect.
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Below us stretched terraced cornfields, rocky creeks, and rampant wild marijuana.
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Long black tubes extend across once scenic valleys and terraced fields.
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Similarly, some bacteria can swarm in more terraced structures under laboratory conditions.
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Stone-and-gravel paths lead to seating areas in the terraced gardens.
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He had dutifully painted streets of terraced housing in browns and grays.
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"This guy is getting that all terraced out for himself," he said.
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The mansion's exteriors also features a terraced pool that surrounds the main house.
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Another way of looking at them is as a terraced landscape or topography.
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At the rear of the house are terraced gardens and an outdoor pool.
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Terraced decks are positioned at the edge of the bluff overlooking the water.
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It has terraced hills to create more cropland, built dams and dug irrigation canals.
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He led me to an enormous terraced concrete platform blotched with graffiti and weeds.
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Outdoor space: The property in back of the house is terraced and extensively planted.
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A separate terraced complex houses a sauna, Jacuzzi and hot tub, and two bathrooms.
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Excavated and terraced, the two courts are rimmed by seating for hundreds of spectators.
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It's a winter afternoon, and Jo and Pam walk into a terraced house in Liverpool.
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Down a step on the terraced vegetable fields, the entire family looks up at me.
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The terraced grounds include a swimming pool and cabana, tennis court and a tool shed.
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There was no speedy overground system ferrying bankers to their comfortable three-bedroom terraced houses.
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Photo credit: NASA/JPL/University of Arizona Depression with Terraced Margins Northwest of Nicholson Crater.
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It's a similar setup; the grave is planted in the midst of terraced vegetable fields.
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Mirco and I hiked halfway up the Palatine to a terraced ledge overlooking the Forum.
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Today, 8 percent of the entire region of Liguria, where Cinque Terre is, is terraced.
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The lot is terraced and includes brickwork around the saltwater swimming pool and adjacent hot tub.
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So much of the land was terraced crops, and the farmers did not like Roomba grazing.
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The boy, from Lancashire, in northwest England, had meant to write "terraced house," the BBC reported.
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The repetitive rows of pebbledash terraced houses with front and back yards are hard to miss.
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Landscaping includes terraced gardens for perennials and vegetables, blueberry bushes and more than 25 fruit trees.
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Exposure is toward the southeast, with French doors opening to a stone patio and terraced gardens.
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The diagonal desire line intersects with a stairway to a terraced cafe, the building's public square.
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A forest of terraced houses, apartments and churches has sprouted up in the neighborhood, obscuring Dilkusha.
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In 2007, the region's terraced vineyards, deemed a "cultural landscape," became a Unesco World Heritage site.
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It contains stores on its ground level and even a glass-walled, terraced penthouse on top.
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Outdoor space: A wide back deck with a large gazebo-like structure overlooks a terraced garden.
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The 11-hectare walled and terraced expanse now draws hundreds of thousands of visitors every year.
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Today is baking day at Biesel's terraced house in Köpenick, Germany, a picturesque district in Berlin.
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It's framed by Lebanese and Syrian villages nestled into terraced hillsides, crowned by minarets and crosses.
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Outdoor space: The house is built into a hillside that has terraced garden beds with stone borders.
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Louvered doors open to a terraced tiled stone patio with an outdoor dining table and lounge chairs.
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The steep terraced vineyards, source of the best grapes, had to be tended almost entirely by hand.
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The space behind the house is terraced, with a yard a few steps up from the pool.
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The Puhaindrans' home, tucked in the middle of a conservation block, is flanked by similar terraced homes.
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The original Club Magnus was in a terraced house in a residential street near Brighton town centre.
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Ms. Fang-od is thin and hunched, but strong from a life of farming Buscalan's terraced slopes.
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The 0.47-acre property is terraced in the back and is planted with orange and lemon trees.
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The property boasts pine forests, olive groves, terraced hillsides, working vineyards, a private lake and even a moat.
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The 0.72-acre plot includes ornamental gardens and ponds, and an organic vegetable garden on the terraced walls.
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His customary terraced "vineyard" seating design—pioneered at the Berlin Philharmonie in the 1960s—is now widely adopted.
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The inner walls are wide and finely terraced, and theouter ramparts display a generally radial structure of hillocks.
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Her private facility, called Riyuexing, is perched in a steep, terraced valley above the county town of Wencheng.
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Two teak-accented buildings enclosed a marble courtyard, amid orange trees, terraced pools and a grand ocean view.
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In sunny south-facing valleys, grapes have been cultivated on steep, terraced slopes for 2,000 years or more.
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There would be no grand proposal in a rose-petal-strewn room overlooking the terraced rice paddies of Ubud.
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Up in the terraced hills of Nepal, meanwhile, farmers can teach their peers down on the plains a lesson.
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A terraced garden stretches out below, filled with dozens of local species: almond and fig trees, mint and za'atar.
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Meanwhile, a rundown four-bedroom terraced house in Surry Hills fetched 1.95 million Australian dollars ($1.5 million) last year.
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Set on a remote hacienda of terraced cornfields, the sustainable hotel's 4503 guest rooms overlook farmland and Andean highlands.
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We drove past orange groves, plots of olive trees, terraced hills of vines — farms that grow the good life.
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On the terraced roof in Neukölln with Vim and Erik as the streets slowly began to fill with flood.
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We walk past the terraced orchard and into a young stand of hazelnut trees, which he planted in 2012.
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And the front yard, if you could even call it a yard, was a series of terraced retaining walls.
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The terraced space has a butler's pantry, an outdoor kitchen and a bar, and areas for lounging and dining.
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And in the terraced auditorium of the Great Hall, no seat is farther than 100 feet from the conductor.
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To grow rice in vertical conditions, hill tribes created a terraced system to control the downward flow of water.
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It's worth noting that Taxco's terraced and compact layout means parking is limited, and driving, somewhat of a challenge.
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A heated gunite pool was designed to look like a lagoon, blending into the terraced perennial and kitchen gardens.
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With about 2000,22020 locals working 22006 days a year, they have so far terraced 22007,20173 hectares, a local official said.
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For nearly a century, this had been dairy country, and the rounded, coastal hills were terraced from decades of grazing.
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What I didn't realize, and couldn't quite see, was that a portion of the driveway was terraced down earthen steps.
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When I needed a break from the grind, I would go out to the terraced garden for an afternoon stroll.
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In the Kensington area of the northern city of Liverpool, a two-bedroom terraced house costs around 50,000 pounds ($64,600).
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The property is terraced and planted with oaks, evergreens and flowering shrubs; a large portion is devoted to native vegetation.
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This means it has the same gorgeous terraced hills, rustic vineyards, bucolic farmland, and general made-for-social-media environs.
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But villages like this one, whose terraced rice fields are crumbling from neglect, depend on the economy far beyond its borders.
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A terraced courtyard planted with pitch pines, river birches and honey locusts will offer another 22,000 square feet of communal space.
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The town is beautiful — it has views of terraced vineyards that hang on the cliffside before dropping down to the sea.
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While Miraval stretches over 1,100 acres, only 26 acres are employed in terraced olive grove production, according to vintner Charles Perrin.
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She brilliantly captures a sense of Hitchcockian, curtain-twitching intensity as Mary and her terraced neighbours struggle to escape each other.
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Police sealed off an entrance to dozens of terraced houses in Fallowfield, where a witness said armed police surrounded a property.
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With its mountains stripped bare for firewood and turned into terraced farm patches, North Korea has frequently experienced floods and droughts.
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The centerpiece of the building is the Forest Valley with a terraced garden, and its heart is the Rain Vortex waterfall.
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There is also a redwood deck at the base of the terraced property, planted with citrus and juniper trees and lavender.
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Surry Hills, a low-slung neighborhood of creative businesses, buzzy cafes and 19th-century terraced houses, has long attracted Sydney's trendsetters.
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There is no groundbreaking architecture though, even if the terraced gardens really differentiate the institution from other art venues of this type.
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Upbringing: Raised in the pretty market town of Tring, Hertfordshire, by a divorced mother in a terraced house with an outside toilet.
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Following the wedding ceremony, an afternoon reception, a traditional Monegasque-style picnic, u cavagnëtu, was held in terraced gardens overlooking the Mediterranean.
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The company set up shop in the attic of a terraced house on Russell Square in Bloomsbury, across the road from UCL.
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Several women, some as young as eighteen, others in late middle age, could be seen scrambling, chamois-like, up the terraced hillside.
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As someone who graduated with a Masters in Architecture, Fallon was also captivated by "the repetitive rhythm of the unusual terraced designs."
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Even physically, the towns appear like natural outcroppings, terraced along the sides of hills, as if sprouting from the earth beneath them.
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A series of terraced gardens on the north side of the house includes a rose garden, flower beds and a vegetable garden.
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A door on the far living room wall leads to a galley kitchen with windows that look out to a terraced garden.
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A door on the far living room wall leads to a galley kitchen with windows that look out to a terraced garden.
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Red-brick terraced houses, built for the families of dockers and industrial workers in the 1950s, jut up against rain-streaked tower blocks.
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First, the route passes through Heaton, a former working-class suburb crammed with terraced housing, the sort of digs long occupied by students.
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Apple trees cascade mountainsides, massive cauliflower blooms soak up the sun on terraced hillsides, and clusters of cannabis plants weave through the landscape.
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In the window of the Abou Arabi Haider Damascene Gourmet Sweets shop sat an intricately terraced mountain of baklava, glistening in syrupy sweat.
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Five sets of French doors on the first floor open to a large terraced Douglas fir deck that steps down into the yard.
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Built into the mountainsides of Hong Kong, these terraced cemeteries appear next to the many skyscrapers that make up the densely packed city.
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A terraced bluestone walkway in front, bracketed by stone walls, leads to a large portico and a front door framed by stained glass.
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Head out of the Graham Taylor Stand, across the parking lot, past a row of terraced houses, and you are on hospital grounds.
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Residents may also park off street in back of the house and descend through the terraced garden to enter through the family room.
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Trees were cut for fuel and timber, then terraced so farmers like Mr. Castellnou's forebears could plant whatever would fetch the most money.
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As the hill slopes toward flat lands to the west, a terraced parking lot and a tidy football stadium have been carved out.
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This is undoubtedly one of the most spectacular flights in the world taking in the Himalayas, pretty terraced fields and scattered hill villages. 2829.
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In the Central Highlands, where the hills are terraced into rice paddies, hand-pulled rickshaws are the main form of transport in the towns.
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"I'm bored to death," said a breathless Sébastien as we hiked down through the steep terraced vineyards of Lavaux, between Lausanne and Vevey. Really?
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In the terraced distance, there's a tan stupa adorned with prayer flags flapping in the wind and a thick white cloud creeping into town.
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According to Shanghaiist, the architects say they borrowed the stacked, layered design from the surrounding province's terraced landscapes, but that seems like a stretch.
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The 1925 Dutch Colonial-style building, which has stained glass, a terraced garden and a separate one-bedroom cottage, is priced at $1.25 million.
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Inland, the so-called Green Island is also known for the terraced vineyards that form the winemaking heart of the island below Monte Epomeo.
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The piazza marks the start of a modern version of the Spanish Steps in Rome: Terraced stairways flow up and through the upper floors.
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The streetlights came on as she made her way along the densely packed terraced houses, her red Labour candidate badge visible in the darkness.
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Hoshinoya Bali, Ubud, Bali Inspired by traditional villages in the rice-terraced region of Ubud, the Japanese-owned Hoshinoya Bali will open this month.
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Park Gi-jong, 62, who has just got his vase, said he was reassured to have it in his terraced house and office building.
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Even an average terraced house in London attracts tax of over £15,000 ($19,000) every time its ownership changes, a year's earnings at the minimum wage.
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Its good schools, pretty Victorian terraced houses and proximity to the Yorkshire Dales mean that it frequently tops lists of the best places to live.
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At the hotel, we were greeted by a butler, ushered into a chauffeured cart and escorted through the terraced property to the pristine beach below.
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Much of the residence is intact, with a large amount of furniture still in place, and there are panoramic countryside views from its terraced garden.
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I'm pacing down frosty pavements in the sparse, rural West Midlands, past giant country houses and barn conversions toward a row of redbrick terraced houses.
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Enterprising residents have built terraced campsites here as well, complete with shops that sell soft drinks and beer to the sound of American pop music.
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They simply work the terraced fields as they usually would while thousands of visitors walk across their property admiring the orchids or the granite hills.
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But the Márquez brothers have stuck to parental supervision and the terraced house their parents acquired here shortly before Marc was born 212 years ago.
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When those fans step off their bus, though, onto the tight, terraced street that flanks Ewood Park, they will do so thinking only about divorce.
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The property is on a quiet residential block in the Pimlico neighborhood, known for its elegant white stucco terraced houses, and is near two leafy squares.
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Japanese TV shows use lots of explanatory on-screen text, designed to capture viewers zapping between channels, along with wide shots of terraced rows of entertainers.
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OUTDOOR SPACE: The property is a terraced 1.78 acres, landscaped with an herb garden, perennials, and pear, fig and plum trees, as well as blueberry bushes.
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What would a typical cottage, terraced house or apartment look like if they were reimagined to take into account the way we live and work today?
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Living in a terraced penthouse on Jane Street in the West Village, he began visiting galleries and befriended artists like Rob Pruitt, Mr. Brainwash and Retna.
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The master has a spacious walk-in closet, a whirlpool tub and a door to one of several terraced gardens around the property, Ms. Bórquez said.
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OUTDOOR SPACE Once part of a 24-acre estate, the house sits on 4.22 acres with two streams, a waterfall, terraced gardens and an expansive meadow.
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The Bisse de Clavau was built in 1453 to irrigate the terraced vineyards in the region, which is the driest and hottest in all of Switzerland.
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The half-acre property includes a large flat yard, a rarity in the hilly Lake Como area, Ms. Heron said, where terraced gardens are the norm.
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She had settled the other day into her favorite banquette high atop Geoffrey's Malibu, the terraced seaside restaurant that doubles as her home away from home.
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Steep switchbacks took us through villages scattered across mountaintops and around terraced hills of coffee, vegetables, and khat, a plant chewed by men in the region.
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A roof garden and a terraced amphitheater deck help keep the ambient temperature around 79 degrees Fahrenheit — 20 degrees cooler than temperatures recorded on the road outside.
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When not abroad he could be found in a terraced townhouse on Norfolk Street, with only a maid, a cook and a valet to tend to him.
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That expanse of green, green grass stretching out beyond the advertising boards, just waiting for you to escape from your terraced prison and run all over it.
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Albanese said financial-sector workers in London had been sounding out the Milan property market over the past year with top-floor terraced apartments in high demand.
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From the reception hall, an exterior door leads to a patio, a garden and a terraced path to a mooring that can accommodate a 63-foot boat.
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It has also been rebranded by the hospitality company Belmond following the hurricanes — a project that included a total renovation of its 170 terraced rooms and villas.
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Occasional news reports about children being interrogated over spelling mistakes (living in a "terrorist" instead of "terraced" house, in one recent case) has stoked further anger, he added.
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Around an outdoor stage, models strutted down a runway that ribboned between typical terraced cafés, ice cream stands and giant green Parisian benches covered with the LV logo.
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Burg Hornberg is a mountaintop fortress surrounded by terraced vineyards, with a tower so high that surely, at some point, someone must have locked a princess in it.
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Perched on a promontory surrounded by water, the city was designed in such a way that the streets are shaded from summer's heat by the terraced buildings themselves.
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Across the piazza on a quaintly picturesque street, the year-and-a-half old Margutta 19 offers 16 plush, modern rooms and suites surrounding a terraced green hillside.
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Fallingwater seems to erupt from the forest around it, with terraced slabs jutting up to 2175½ feet — seemingly without support — over a waterfall in the Bear Run creek.
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Rather than emphasize the buildings' newness, however, the architect Thomas Juul-Hansen muted it, softening their clean, contemporary lines with prewar touches like Juliet balconies and terraced setbacks.
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It's an ancient wine region, relying on visually stunning, terraced vineyards carved into the steep slopes rising from a network of rivers by the Romans, 2,000 years ago.
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No one innately knows the answers to these questions about Bandol, unless that person happened to have grown up in a terraced vineyard on a hillside in Provence.
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A terraced, covered walkway leads to the orange front door, "the same color as when the house was built," said Valerie Benchitrit of Sutton Group - Associates Realty Inc.
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Today the coal yards is an outdoor shopping mall, with a fancy chocolatier, high-end boutiques and a terraced park filled with office workers and toddlers at lunchtime.
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" The four-bedroom estate has a heated outdoor pool and Jacuzzi, three fireplaces, terraced gardens, a rock waterfall, natural-spring pond and "romantic gazebos with stunning canyon vistas.
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On a visit in mid-September ahead of the official launch, bright red signs extolling the Chinese Communist Party dotted the drive through terraced vineyards up to the estate.
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From the terraced hillside over Zihuatanejo Bay, you can easily spend an afternoon soaking in your private plunge pool, lounging on a hammock, or sipping margaritas on the beach.
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She added that the understated lines of the structure, rising atop a terraced garden with carefully selected trees and other plants, expressed just what the organizers had hoped for.
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The 10,000-square-foot house sits behind iron gates and a stucco-and-brick arched entryway, on nearly an acre of terraced lawns and tropical gardens with lush vegetation.
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Arrange a private tasting and tour of the terraced groves to stroll alongside roaming sheep and marvel at the magnificent mountain views (by reservation only; from €75 per person).
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And a few months ago, I stood in its main reading room — a huge multistory terraced space in a building designed to evoke the sun peeking over the horizon.
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The concrete, terraced villa, built in 2015, has four levels, with nearly 17,600 square feet of interior space, on half an acre in the gated community of El Paredón.
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There is also an addition at the back of the main floor that is used as a family room and leads to a landscaped back patio and terraced garden.
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Their empire ran up and down the spine of the Andes, with a network of roads, terraced farms and breathtaking mountaintop outposts stretching the same distance as Stockholm to Cairo.
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I had started on the outskirts of Oia and trekked on a trail snaking along the sea and past terraced, blooming gardens and the picturesque villages of Firostefani and Imerovigli.
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Outdoor space: The terraced property in front of the house contains a 30-foot-long water feature that trickles down the slope and ends in the heated swimming pool area.
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At Birhan's house — situated in the middle of a plain, terraced row, though its red door branded it as likely inhabited by asylum seekers — he made me tea and pizza.
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It was more lucrative than staying at home, and meant in Lini's case that they could afford their one-storey brick house, with a small terraced garden, looking over open pasture.
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The 10-year-old boy wrote that he lived in a "terrorist house" when he meant to write a "terraced house" during an English lesson at his primary school in Lancashire.
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LONDON (Reuters) - A Beatles fan, who already owns two other properties linked to the band, has bought the small terraced Liverpool house where the pop group's drummer Ringo Starr grew up.
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"The idea was to install these ceramics in such a beautiful place, where people built their homes and terraced gardens are inserted in nature," said Patrizia Marchi, one of the artists.
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To him, the British cities of the Industrial Revolution were a smoggy nest of narrow back alleys, where noisy factories and cramped terraced housing joined to form as singular gruesome locales.
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On the heights of Vittoriosa, we happened upon a terraced square looking back toward the glinting buildings of Valletta and, to our right, to the breakwater and beyond, the open sea.
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"It is important to raise awareness at any level," said Mauro Varotto, a geographer at the University of Padua and co-founder of Italy's branch of the International Terraced Landscapes Alliance.
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There is a pebbled patio with built-in bench seating and a dining area, as well as steps leading down through a terraced garden to a potting area under shade cloth.
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Before us was the Statue of Liberty, same as she ever was, and something new: a tall, tan hill, terraced like a ziggurat, with a rockfall zagging down the north side.
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A short drive away is Battersea House, a terraced property that now has two extensions: a contemporary rooftop addition for a new master bedroom suite and an open-plan space downstairs.
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Despite recent efforts to plant trees, many of the hills in North Korea, a mountainous country, remain bare after decades of cutting trees for firewood and making room for terraced farm patches.
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U.V. chugged farther and farther up the five-mile island's main road, terraced vineyards and fig trees sloping off to one side, religious statues and thatched-roof food stands lining the other.
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A showstopping antipasto display spreads over part of a central bar on the ground floor; there's a terraced lower level called the Patio; and throughout are Mr. Fireman's own Renaissance-style sculptures.
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Faced with bluish-gray bricks and adorned with elaborately carved, oxblood-red lintels, the rowhouses call to mind a radically compacted version of the terraced workers' housing found in northern English cities.
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A DIMINUITIVE woman in a sari and buttoned-up cardigan stands with her right arm aloft in triumph, as a long line of police holds back crowds of people lining a terraced street.
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Riaz says that the smaller stadium nestled in the city center, with its rows of terraced streets and back alleys, provided the shelter for fights hidden from the watchful eye of the police.
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According to the building's designers, GDP Architects, rainwater is harvested while a "green terraced accessible roof" offers sweeping views of the city and its surroundings, with a canopy providing shade from the sun.
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The paper urged local authorities to reverse their long-standing opposition to built-up residential areas by highlighting London's mansion blocks and terraced streets, all of which encourage a strong sense of neighborhood.
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Earlier this year, Pierre-Alexis Dumas, the artistic director of Hermès, presented Mr. Hardy, 50, with the Legion d'Honneur in a terraced room atop the company's headquarters on Faubourg St.-Honoré in Paris.
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Big Ticket A sprawling, terraced apartment at 150 Charles Street, the Witkoff Group's 91-unit brick-and-glass condominium in the West Village, has changed ownership for the second time in six months.
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Size: 7,373 square feet Price per square foot: $305 Indoors: Terraced front steps take you to custom-made steel front door with circular windows that match the new porthole windows on the facade.
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MAJALAYA, Indonesia (Reuters) - Indonesia's Citarum river burbles past terraced rice paddies and quiet farming villages in the highlands of West Java, as it begins to wind its way hundreds of kilometers toward the sea.
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It must be savored at a slow pace, if only because many of the itineraries require steep climbs up and down terraced slopes and alleyways, offering grand vistas of the coast as a prize.
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There, about 20183 feet below, is the reason: The town was built on a grid of wide streets, and its stucco townhouses, terraced up the side of a hill, have garden spaces in front.
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The project, now under construction, features a terraced esplanade park that rises like steps from the East River, which will be filled with absorbent material to protect against storm surges, high winds and more.
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As you walk past patches of fenced-up wasteland, a boarded-up pub and renovated red-brick workers' terraced houses, there's an almost palpable sense that the Industrial Revolution began here underneath the polished facades.
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With these views, you could spend an entire afternoon lounging on the lawns, but there's plenty more to (forgive me) dig into: Root around the terraced herb garden, where fennel grows alongside lungwort and feverfew.
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It features terraced public spaces overlooking the village, a spa, a restaurant and a bar with an adjacent ballroom — 2,362 square feet of original herringbone wood flooring and wood paneling — befitting its Jazz Age beginnings.
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As ISIS surged through the city, the commander of the SWAT team, Lieutenant Colonel Rayyan Abdelrazzak, consolidated his troops in the Mosul Hotel, a ten-story terraced building on the western bank of the Tigris.
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Here, instead of whizzing past rows of poky terraced houses en route to the big smoke each day, Rachel stares blurry-eyed at white-washed mansions that look more as if they belong on plantation land.
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Margheriti, the local landscape designers who supply the nearby historic gardens of La Foce, created the couple's terraced gardens of olive trees, cypress, and flowering shrubs and herbs that knit the home into its bosky environment.
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On the private three-week Adventure and Romance Tour of Italy and Greece, travelers take a moonlit gondola ride in Venice, explore the seaside terraced villages of Cinque Terre and relax on the beaches in Santorini.
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But since the water storage tank was installed, "all these fields have become green again", she said, pointing to terraced fields where tomatoes, aubergine, okra and pumpkin grow against a backdrop of towering, bare-sloped mountains.
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When she finally heard about a smaller house for sale on a lot of less than two acres that had been part of a larger estate, with terraced gardens descending to the ocean, she didn't hesitate.
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Jaghori's 600,000 people are poor and live in an isolated part of the central highlands, an area that has no paved roads or electric lines, with terraced wheat fields and abundant orchards of almond and apple trees.
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Ms. Marchais, a collector of Tibetan and Indian artifacts, built the fieldstone complex and terraced garden next to her home in the style of a Himalayan Buddhist monastery, with rocks handpicked on road trips around Staten Island.
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Units within the retained estate range from flats to large detached houses, although most are two- to three-bedroom semi-detached or terraced houses, largely in south-east and south-west England where housing demand has been strong.
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Basically, in 2007 the Lib Dem council floated the idea of draining students out of the traditional go-to suburbs like leafy, affluent Jesmond and terraced, multicultural Heaton and put them in purpose-built blocks around the city.
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Honawar, a hotelier and restaurateur, operates, among other properties, the five-bedroom hotel 28 Kothi in Jaipur — a terraced jewel box of a guesthouse owned by Siddharth Kasliwal, an heir to Jaipur's legendary jewelry emporium the Gem Palace.
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The farther one travels from the city center, the more prices fall, Mr. Rossi said, with smaller apartments in outer areas going for less than 2011,053 euros (about $205,25054) and terraced houses starting at about 28100,000 euros ($262,000).
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It features two seaside pools — a long heated one for laps, and a big stone-lined saltwater basin for lolling — terraced gardens with hammocks, a spacious stone-paved sun deck, a swimming pontoon, two restaurants and three bars.
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The chef John Fraser oversees all the food and beverage, from the rooftop bar and pool atop a terraced wood deck to the Sunset Club, a lower level bôite meant to evoke the district's 224s California Dreamin' vibe.
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One man who remains particularly vocal in his criticism of what got built in the post-war period is Nicholas Boys Smith, founder of Create Streets—a controversial social enterprise that campaigns for low-rise, terraced housing and apartments.
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KIGALI (Reuters) - Relatives of Rwanda's late king, gathered in Kigali for his funeral on Sunday, have rejected a move by his chief courtier to hand his crown to a father-of-two living in a terraced house in England.
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Well, [after I divorced your grandfather in the early 1970s], I wanted to buy a terraced house, and I couldn't get a mortgage from a building society—despite having a job and enough savings to put down a deposit.
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Wines of The Times Way up in the foothills of the Alps, about as far north as you can go in the Lombardy region of Italy without hitting Switzerland, a series of terraced vineyards hug the hillsides overlooking the river Adda.
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So as the home secretary prepares her move to that storied, terraced house in SW1 and contemplates a Labour Party tearing itself apart, the thought must cross her mind: time to go to the country and secure a five-year lease?
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The Mountain, the firm's first landmark, is situated next door to VM. It's an angular form like the slope of a mountain, terraced by boxy apartments, each with its own garden; the inside of the mountain holds a parking garage.
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The large hall, which holds around twenty-one hundred people, follows the now fashionable "vineyard" plan: as at the Paris Philharmonie, the Berlin Philharmonie, and Disney Hall, in Los Angeles, the performers occupy the center, surrounded by terraced rings of seats.
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We lived in a tiny terraced house, one of a row of a hundred and fifty, opposite another row of a hundred and fifty, on a long street with a town at one end and a hill at the other.
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A tangle of scruffy, red-brick terraced streets on the wrong side of the Brussels canal, populated by many young, jobless Muslims alienated by European society, Molenbeek seems to have been just that for Salah Abdeslam and his elder brother Brahim.
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The price includes the entire village, with remains of its medieval castle; a palatial 18th-century villa of 7,000 square meters, or about 75,000 square feet; streets of terraced workers' houses and piazzas; and a church with a bell tower.
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A patchwork of fields — some blanketed with purple potato flowers, others sprouting young corn stalks, and many barren and brown, waiting to be planted — terraced the hills and spread out on a plateau that overlooked the river about 2210 feet below.
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Walking to the ground from the direction of Norwood Junction, one passes leafy streets, terraced houses and the occasional grand old structure from a bygone age, usually standing side by side with a paint-peel pub or a postwar flatblock.
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Just a few miles northeast of the Whitechapel Fatberg's underground lair lies the site of the work for which the sculptor Rachel Whiteread is best known: a concrete cast of the interior of a Victorian terraced house in London's East End.
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While terraced Victorian houses, which share walls with neighboring buildings, are fairly common in Melbourne, sizable free-standing Victorian homes like Exeter are more of a rarity, said Michael Armstrong, a partner at the brokerage Kay & Burton, which has the listing.
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Though designed by a medley of local and international architects, including the 2017 Pritzker Prize laureates, RCR Arquitectes, all the properties, whether terraced houses, flats or villas, must abide by aesthetic rules designed to respect the lay of the land.
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A prominent example is Golden Mile Complex, a dramatically terraced Brutalist building that is down the street from Golden Mile Tower and that went on the market in November for a minimum price of 403 million Singapore dollars, about $587 million.
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In late February, he presented a "more robust" landscaping plan for the wall, to begin this spring, with plantings hanging over the top portion, ivies growing up the lower portion, and mature trees planted on the terraced portion between them.
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While campaigning at a by-election in a poor part of Kent, Emily Thornberry, a London MP and shadow cabinet minister, tweeted a picture of a modest terraced house with a white van and three St George flags in front of it.
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The lousy meal couldn't distract from the beauty of the surroundings, and I walked along an old Inca trail past evidence of other components of the local Aymara people's diet—terraced fields of potatoes and quinoa, along with plentiful sheep, pigs, and donkeys.
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Shares in On the Beach, a 14-year old company started in a terraced house which is now worth over 500 million pounds ($635.40 million), climbed 15 percent on Thursday, after it reassured that profit would come in broadly in line with guidance.
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Converted into a hotel in 259, the former Villa Eugénie has kept its imposing mansard roof and terraced umber facade but now boasts 247 guest rooms, which channel the villa's original Second Empire style with gathered silk curtains and upholstered Louis XIII furnishings.
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Given its peculiar boot-shape peninsula, jagged coastline and manifold mountain chains, Italy is believed to have the most terraced land in Europe, with more than 100,000 miles of dry stone walls — 20 times the length of the Great Wall of China.
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Nowhere was this more evident than at the parties she gave, first at her parents' Beverly Hills estate, Misty Mountain, in later decades at a rambling Upper West Side apartment overlooking Central Park and, finally, at a terraced triplex on the East River.
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In other notable transactions last month, the director Oliver Stone acquired a waterfront apartment in Battery Park City, the sports anchor Mike Greenberg bought a new condominium near Madison Square Park and the model Petra Nemcova sold her terraced unit in TriBeCa.
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Bremen has the highest unemployment rate of any state, 9.7% compared with 2.8% in Bavaria, although rows of terraced houses are well kept and millionaires reside in stylish villas on the other side of the city that shares its name with the state.
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The terraced Union Square penthouse that served as the home of hedge-fund executive Taylor Mason, played by Asia Kate Dillon, during seasons two and four of the Showtime series "Billions" was just perfect — except that the elevator opened directly into the apartment.
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Much of the town, which is 10% complete and will in a couple of decades be home to 12,000 people, consists of terraced houses and mews buildings overlooking village greens, in contrast to Plymouth's post-war suburbs of detached homes in cul-de-sacs.
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British-born Holles, 23, a resident of Mallorca since he was five, says it costs six to seven times more to produce organic olive oil on terraced land like this, from trees 22 to 22025 years old, than using mechanized methods on the flat.
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BIRZEIT, West Bank — When the $24 million Palestinian Museum celebrates its opening on Wednesday, it will have almost everything: a stunning, contemporary new building; soaring ambitions as a space to celebrate and redefine Palestinian art, history and culture; an outdoor amphitheater; a terraced garden.
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Jeremy Brown, design director for Spaceport America, explains that the choice of materials and terraced surfaces, leading up to the lighter, airier second story, is meant to evoke the landscape outside, which nearly all the seating faces, and draw the attention outwards and upwards.
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In Roslyn Estates, N.Y., an updated four-bedroom, three-and-a-half-bath, 5,400-square-foot, 1948 home with an open floor plan, an unfinished basement, a two-car attached garage and a terraced backyard with two landscaped ponds with tiled surrounds, on 0.39 acres.
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The merger of the two seafront lots into one eight-bedroom estate was overseen by Alireza Sagharchi, a British architect, who added a waterfront terrace with Italian travertine tile, a wooden deck with access to the shore and a terraced garden under the bridge.
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The 15th-century villa (bequeathed on Acton's death to New York University, which now uses it as a campus), is just outside Florence on a hillside terraced with ranks of dense green cypress, gray groves of olive and Baroque gardens bristling with mythological statuary.
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The boy had intended to write that he lived in a "terraced" house but teachers did not realize he had made an error and reported the boy to the police in accordance with new counter-terrorism rules, which critics say are focused on Muslim communities.
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The mood there was somber, darkened by the downpour that drenched the terraced fields and rice paddies and the hundreds of Japanese who came out in plastic raincoats to witness the second pope to pay his respects after St. John Paul II in 226.
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A large, upright stone on a terraced hillside on the edge of the settlement is revered as the one that Jacob slept on, then anointed with oil, after God appeared in the dream and promised all the land around to him and his progeny.
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In black metal, individual instruments rarely vary in volume, so changes in vertical density [the number of instruments playing simultaneously] and horizontal density [the number of notes in a given span of time] are necessary not only to vary texture but to create terraced dynamics.
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The Guangxi New Media Centre, which was recently completed after two years of construction in Nanning, the capital of the Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region, appears to have a curvy, tiered design that its architect claims was inspired by the terraced landscapes the country is known for.
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Since its inception the initiative has been much criticized, accused of being counter-productive, discriminatory and ineffective — especially as stories have emerged of children being questioned by police alone for misdemeanors such as misspelling "terraced house" as "terrorist house," and wearing Free Palestine badges at school.
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Soon after the turn of the 20th century, Sapa — a verdant Vietnamese mountain town known for its terraced rice fields — became a stylish retreat for French colonials who would take the train from Hanoi for visits to their country villas and to a now-defunct sanitarium.
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In 2014, less consequentially but similarly illuminating, another left-of-center politician, Emily Thornberry, tweeted to her followers a photo of a small terraced house covered in English flags (the red cross of St George on a white background) with a white van parked in front of it.
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On the terraced Victorian streets of SW16, Mr Khan was just "Sadiq", the guy from the neighbouring constituency; the machine politician who had made Tooting—a mix of hard-up estates and comfortable suburbs—relatively safe for Labour when a lesser practitioner might have lost it to the Conservatives.
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Read more:California's stunning 'Field of Light' looks like thousands of glowing fireflies have invaded the countryside12 stunning photos of places that naturally glow in the darkThe world's largest flower garden has 7 million bulbs in bloom right nowThese terraced hot spring pools in China change color every season
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It sits on a terraced lot of almost a third of an acre landscaped with tiered mature gardens full of exotic plants and surrounded by wildlife such as red foxes, partridges and Barbary macaques, according to Sammy Armstrong, the listing agent, who is the director of Savills Gibraltar.
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Even as many in his generation abandoned the region's steep, terraced vineyards and the grueling labor they required for the fertile, easier-to-farm flatlands, or for jobs in the cities, Mr. Clape and his small cohort continued to trudge up the hills day after day, for little reward.
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The corpse in "The Trespasser," the most recent book in the series, turns up in a Victorian terraced cottage on a nondescript Dublin street, a home furnished in the kind of canned, impersonal good taste that would give Detective Antoinette Conway the creeps if she permitted herself such whimsies.
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"What bothers me about this announcement is that it comes after the news story that a kid who wrote 'I live in a terrorist house' instead of 'terraced house' was subject to an official intervention, and after David Cameron's announcement about English lessons and 'submissive Muslim women,'" says Camille.
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Stretching for several hundred feet along Park Street, the wall (technically two walls — one along the sidewalk, with an identical one terraced above it) marks the beginning of construction on a 109-unit residential development on a three-acre site a short walk from the heart of downtown.
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The report goes on to say Apple was reportedly working on new MacBook Pros with even longer-lasting batteries that would have used "terraced" battery cells: batteries that are contoured to take advantage of every bit of space within the laptop's chassis (like the batteries in the 12-inch MacBook).
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In fantastical Alice-in-Wonderland fashion, a 56-foot-long rabbit, made of aluminum and glass, hangs suspended by cables from the ceiling in mid-hop as it dives through a terraced opening in an upper floor toward a suitcase on the ground below with a "rabbit hole" in it.
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"In the face of rocket-propelled grenade, sniper, and machine gun fire, Sergeant Williams led an Afghan Commando element across a fast-moving, ice cold, and waist-deep river to fight its way up a terraced mountain to the besieged lead element of the assault force," the Medal of Honor announcement reads.
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Though the region is most known for its white wines, skip the sylvaner and riesling in favor of little-known Alto Adige reds during a tasting at Abbazia di Novacella, a pastoral monastery of Augustinian canons founded in the 211th century that produces wine from grapes grown in the surrounding terraced vineyards.
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Team: Leicester City The former manufacturing town of red brick terraced houses and hosiery factories about two hours from London has received a lot of attention since researchers from the University of Leicester found a skeleton during an archaeological dig was that of Richard III, a monarch immortalized by Shakespeare, in 2013.
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We took the shuttle bus up to the amphitheater, where a strong wind was blowing, and where — as their parents and grandparents sat on the stone benches encircling the theater and took in the view — the girls ran up and down the levels like graceful little mountain goats and treated the ancient theater as their personal terraced playground.
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A club is more than that, though; there is another side, one which does its work not on the field at Goodison Park or in the suite of offices in the city, but in the tight warren of terraced streets that surround the stadium, in schools across Liverpool, in some of the most underprivileged parts of Merseyside.
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