It's not that the Japanese restaurants are imitating Chinese noodle shops like Ollie's, where the slabs of roast pork hang in the window.

The ash-covered floor of the boiler room is overrun with invading plants, rusting ironwork criss-crosses high above and partly demolished reinforced concrete slabs hang in lumps.

He turned back with a sigh and tried the next vendor, where slabs of fatty bacon hung from meathooks.

Large slabs of green crystal hung together, ponderous bass chimes turning in the wind.

THE weathered white-trimmed cottage sat unopened for the season, with a slab of plywood still hanging where police investigators had removed the back door.

A tiny slab of rock hung sus- pended by chains across that throat-a disk of stone that measured no more than a dozen feet across.

Tempting slabs of Italian ham hung in the windows of the salumerie (delis), and funky aged cheese smells rolled out of doorways.

Enormous slabs of green-tinted glass hung suspended three stories over their heads.

You'll often see slabs of it hung from restuarant windows in Chinatowns across the world.

The interior, however, was more familiar to Niemeyer's language, with cat-walk ramps linking the different levels and the mezzanine, a free-form slab hung from the ceiling beams.