It is the Nimby phenomenon that seems to be driving the desire for something beyond concrete fortresses or tin sheds rimmed by chain-link fences.

The $57 million school, a concrete fortress that was built for teenagers but modeled after an adult prison, serves boys ages 12 to 17 who have been committed for offenses ranging from chronic truancy to violent assault.

Now, pacing back and forth in the heart of a concrete fortress, he could no longer deny it.

A concrete fortress of a place.

During WW2 and before Japanese Occupation, British had built numbers of concrete fortress to defend this area from Japanese attack.

Has he been replaced by a replicant, remotely controlled by an evil genius in a concrete fortress, surrounded by a piranha-stocked moat?

The warehouse, a concrete fortress, has wide-open spaces for paintings, sculptures and installations by Philip Taaffe, Charles Ray, Beverly Semmes, Mr. Bedia and others.

Like Camden Yards in Baltimore two years before, Arlington evoked the era before ball parks became concrete fortresses.

The old headquarters, a grim concrete fortress here, was converted into American military offices and is now being turned into university classrooms.

It's got to be a Russian hotel: a big, ugly, concrete fortress with hundreds of rooms and one roll of toilet paper.