This provides visual interest and variety, adding greater importance to the flanking buildings.

The war memorial stands near the town centre but is slightly obscured by the flanking buildings.

Together with the two flanking buildings, the 18th century restoration was mostly likely the design of Carl Hårleman.

The Beast had been bounding back and forth between his friends and the flanking buildings, peering into windows and snickering.

Most of the flanking buildings seemed to be deserted ruins.

Its manor house is a ruin; only one small flanking building survives, and it has been much altered.

It had two floors (three in the domed part) and many attics above the flanking buildings.

Before touching it, he flashed his light along the sides of the flanking buildings.

No one was in sight At a half-speed, limping run, he dodged along in the shade of a flanking building.

This mini-maelstrom of architecture made the flanking buildings - hardly outposts of repose themselves - look placid by comparison.