ruins

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Ms. Brothers is a professor of art and architecture at Northeastern University and the author of “Giuliano da Sangallo and the Ruins of Rome.”

From The Wall Street Journal • Nov. 21, 2025

His current project, The Allure or Ruins, focuses on post-industrial relics and landscapes of Wales - or "old stuff", as he puts it.

From BBC • Sep. 29, 2024

It is badly crumbling but you can just make out that she etched: “Marsh Ruins, Beverly Buchanan, 7/81.”

From New York Times • Jul. 29, 2023

Several hundred meters away, visitors were enjoying an unusual degree of tranquility at the Ruins of St. Paul’s, originally the 17th century Church of Mater Dei.

From Seattle Times • Jan. 1, 2023

We ended up putting our blanket down by the Ruins, this weird rectangle of Roman ruins plopped down in the middle of a field in Indianapolis.

From "The Fault in Our Stars" by John Green