Late-17th-century builders managed to incorporate bits of ancient Alexandria in the mosque's structure, reusing two classical columns to support the minaret.

On first impression it looks like the builders have managed to enclose Malham Cove, such is the scale of this set up.

Ultimately the builders managed to keep one lane open while construction proceeded.

All those displaced people will have to go somewhere else, at enormous cost, and even if the builders manage somehow not to pay the displacement fees, somebody will.

Empty shells where the spec builder had not managed to sell shop frontage, all crude concrete, marked by the fossil-imprints of wooden battens.

While builders like Soultone have managed to survive this onslaught by combining modern and vintage processes, techniques, and materials, much of this cottage industry is quickly vanishing.

The builder managed to trick the devil by siting columns so that the windows were not visible from the spot where the devil stood at the entrance.

The builder managed to keep some of them and they partially screen the town houses from the two highways.

Donatelli's place was large, and the builder had managed to incorporate Italianate architectural features in with the more traditional silver-gray shingles and white trim, but it was all done in good taste.

How could the ancient builders possibly have managed to lift these granite blocks into place, especially in such confined spaces?