The three-storey, red-brick complex of 12 buildings is 400-440 meters long, giving an illusion of one enormous edifice.

The red-brick complex includes 500,000 square feet of office space and a 1.5 million-square-foot warehouse built in 1926.

For generations of teachers, civil servants and other middle-class New Yorkers, Stuyvesant Town and Peter Cooper Village, two neighboring red-brick complexes along the East River in Manhattan, have provided more than housing at a reasonable price.

Stores ringed the red-brick complex and physicians, dentists and eye doctors occupied many of the buildings' ground-floor spaces.

The White House lies across the street from the Embassy's sprawling red-brick complex, and with each tightening of the noose around the Parliament, the Embassy found itself fighting for air.

IN the 111 years since New York Hospital first moved its psychiatric patients to the red-brick complex on the 214-acre medical campus here on Bloomingdale Road, the influence of technology on medical care has grown exponentially - at the expense, some say, of the bedside manner and other nurturing traditions.

AFTER 19 months on the market amid questions of its continued viability as a modern corporate address, the former headquarters of the General Foods Corporation, a red-brick complex built in 1953, has now caught the attention of a Manhattan developer who plans to turn it into a multitenant corporate campus.

A Talented Linguist It was 8:30 A.M. and the winter darkness was just lifting over the red-brick parliamentary complex where the deceptively easy-going Prime Minister has a cozy, wood-paneled office called "the little tower."

A $25 million restoration is under way at the Darwin D. Martin House, part of a red-brick Prairie-style complex that rose in 1905, a year before the Larkin office building was completed.