At the very top of the house, in a former dovecote with oxeye windows, there’s now a yoga studio and a roof deck with a hair-raising view of the river valley.
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Jo Rodgers,
Vogue,
3 May 2024
Surrounded by redwood trees, the half-timbered home has multiple rooflines and gables, three stand-alone dovecotes that look like little towers, and a fence of irregularly curving bricks.
In fact, by 1978, black children could be shot on sight for leaving their family's kraal, or homestead.
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Alexandra Fuller,
Travel + Leisure,
21 Aug. 2020
Inspired by a traditional kraal (village) and surrounded by four savannahs, the lodge is home to 30 wildlife species — zebras, giraffes, flamingos, and gazelles — some of which can be spotted wandering past room windows.
However, one of agriculture’s most potent biological threats, a virulent strain of avian influenza, has infiltrated henhouses over the past three years, roiling the $40 billion industry.
—
Laurent Belsie,
The Christian Science Monitor,
22 Jan. 2025
Amazon's latest retail media announcement - offering its advertising technology to other retailers - might seem like asking competitors to invite the fox into the henhouse.
The first was named after the legislature of the Texas Republic, although the first capitol, a log structure tucked behind a defensive stockade, rose not on Congress, but at West Eighth and Colorado streets.
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Michael Barnes,
Austin American-Statesman,
3 Sep. 2024
Buildings that were part of the stockade were then dismantled, and the wood planks were reused to build homes located throughout Marietta.
On the day of the rettir, hundreds of sheep are released into a central wooden sheepfold that’s surrounded by marked compartments—one belonging to each local farmer—that jut out from the inner circle like rays of the sun.
—
Laura Kiniry,
Smithsonian Magazine,
28 Oct. 2022
This tidy residence in the western Swiss village of Etoy was built in 1830 as a sheepfold.
Floor-to-ceiling rows of whole legs of prosciutto were arranged like folds in a curtain, which somehow gave the effect of an opera set, thanks to the room’s dramatic modern chandeliers—apt for a factory in Giuseppe Verdi’s hometown.
Alongside the message, the shelter shared photos of the two dogs, including a picture of them inside the cage in the desert.
—
Gabrielle Rockson,
People.com,
27 Feb. 2025
Rossi, however, didn’t leave satisfied after hitting the side of the net with part of the cage gaping as the Wild pressed for the tying goal on a six-on-five late.
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