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Bastions of downtown's underground spirit remain: Gronk's assistant, Luis Vasquez, holds regular openings and events in a 3-year-old pop-up art space in his building's Spring Street lobby called the Lobby Gallery.

From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 10, 2016

Bastions, palazzi, fortresses, squares and citadels are all being painstakingly restored.

From BBC • Nov. 28, 2015

Its Leeds base lends colour to an otherwise drab industrial estate, with a surplus tank beside a wall of Bastions which looks like something out of a conflict zone.

From The Guardian • Sep. 27, 2010

The next year he lost his job with the London Telegraph for criticizing Neville Chamberlain in his book, Fallen Bastions.

From Time Magazine Archive

This Gate is defended by a Half-Moon, and two Bastions fac'd with Brick, and fronts that call'd the Street Royale; one of the longest and most frequented in all the City.

From The Memoirs of Charles-Lewis, Baron de Pollnitz, Volume I Being the Observations He Made in His Late Travels from Prussia thro' Germany, Italy, France, Flanders, Holland, England, &C. in Letters to His Friend. Discovering Not Only the Present State of the Chief Cities and Towns; but the Characters of the Principal Persons at the Several Courts. by P?llnitz, Karl Ludwig von