41.   The building was grey and a little austere.

42.   The building was too modern for my taste.

43.   The building was very plain with hardly any Decoration at all.

44.   The buildings are now in increasingly better condition and most work is relatively small order.

45.   The buildings have been adapted in a piecemeal fashion.

46.   The buildings were in a decrepit state.

47.   The buildings were not in the best of condition.

48.   The buildings were off-white and Decorated in once-bright yellows, reds, oranges, and blues.

49.   The buildings were only specters glimpsed through the thick white veils the air had become.