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Vanished Houston Landmarks by Mark Lardas
epub |eng | 2020-07-21 | Author:Mark Lardas

The sign-on logo for KUHT-TV. Houston’s channel 8 was the first public interest television station to begin broadcasting in the United States. The original studio was in the Ezekial Cullen ...
( Category: Landmarks & Monuments July 22,2020 )
Manual of Low-Slope Roof Systems : Fourth Edition by Griffin C.W.; Fricklas Richard
epub |eng | 2012-03-18 | Author:Griffin, C.W.; Fricklas, Richard

TABLE 11.2 ASTM Standards for APP Modified Bitumen TABLE 11.3 ASTM Standards for SBS Modified Bitumen Figure 11.3 Propane torching of APP-modified-bitumen sheets is mandatory because APP-modified asphalt cannot be ...
( Category: Roofing July 21,2020 )
Energy-Efficient Timber-Glass Houses by Vesna Žegarac Leskovar & Miroslav Premrov
epub |eng | | Author:Vesna Žegarac Leskovar & Miroslav Premrov

A difference in the insulation properties of the wall elements, such as the insulation thickness, the number of insulating layers or the insulation type can be observed in the above ...
( Category: Heating, Ventilation & Air Conditioning July 7,2020 )
The Liar's Ball by Ward Vicky
epub |eng | 2014-10-04 | Author:Ward, Vicky [Ward, Vicky]

■ ■ ■ Like everyone else in the building, Icahn was friendly with Macklowe. In November 2006, Macklowe and Icahn ran into each other in the lobby. They reminisced about ...
( Category: Buildings July 5,2020 )
Modern Architecture by Adam Sharr
epub |eng | 2018-09-21 | Author:Adam Sharr [Sharr, Adam]

The chapel was engineered to achieve the forms Corbusier wanted, rather than following the logic of its materials. Its seemingly weighty roof was actually constructed like an aeroplane wing from ...
( Category: Landmarks & Monuments July 1,2020 )
Mansfield Plantation by Christopher Boyle
epub |eng | 2018-11-11 | Author:Christopher Boyle

( Category: Landmarks & Monuments June 29,2020 )
Kensington Palace by Tom Quinn
epub |eng | 2020-06-15 | Author:Tom Quinn

The apartment to which the couple returned comprised most of the ground floor and first-floor rooms on the East Front and, after the initial redecorating on which the duke insisted, ...
( Category: Landmarks & Monuments June 29,2020 )
Grand Canyon Pioneer Cemetery (9781439650585) by Anderson Parker
epub |eng | 2015-06-14 | Author:Anderson, Parker

Robert Bingham attended Yale University from 1915 to 1918 and was a star football player there, leading his team to many victories, including one over Harvard. He was a student ...
( Category: Landmarks & Monuments June 28,2020 )
Soft City by David Sim
azw3, epub |eng | 2019-08-19 | Author:David Sim [Sim, David]

01./02. Melbourne, Australia (left) and Rio de Janeiro, Brazil (right). Kiosks in central districts bring a feeling of security to the streets in areas that otherwise lack nighttime population. Integrating ...
( Category: City Planning & Urban Development June 27,2020 )
Timber Framing for the Rest of Us (Mother Earth News Wiser Living Series) by Rob Roy
azw3 |eng | 2004-03-31 | Author:Rob Roy [Roy, Rob]

Fig. 4.21: Install toe-nails (or screws) at about a 60-degree angle. As it is driven in, the toenail on the right will drive the post to the left. See sidebar ...
( Category: Architecture June 27,2020 )
A Rift in the Earth: Art, Memory, and the Fight for a Vietnam War Memorial by James Reston
azw3 |eng | 2017-09-04 | Author:James Reston [Reston, James]

Chapter Ten DEDICATION Maya Lin flew in from Boston several days before the dedication, having finally been invited as something of an afterthought following the 60 Minutes embarrassment. She was ...
( Category: Vietnam War June 27,2020 )
Defined by Design by Kathryn H. Anthony & Kathryn H. Anthony
azw3 |eng | 2017-03-13 | Author:Kathryn H. Anthony & Kathryn H. Anthony [Anthony, Kathryn H.]

“My employer suggested that I pump in the women's restroom. I replied that I would be happy to do that if the CEO would like to prepare his lunch there ...
( Category: Industrial & Product Design June 27,2020 )
Coal Mining in Britain by Richard Hayman
epub |eng | 2016-06-15 | Author:Richard Hayman

The pit-head layout at Hebburn Colliery, near Newcastle-upon-Tyne, in the mid-nineteenth century included the engine on the left. To the right of the wooden head gear is the heapstead where ...
( Category: Landmarks & Monuments June 27,2020 )
Frank Lloyd Wright and Mason City by Roy R. Behrens
epub |eng | 2016-06-18 | Author:Roy R. Behrens

Lithographic plate from The Grammar of Ornament (1856) by Owen Jones, an indispensable sourcebook for architects. Left half of a panoramic photograph of downtown Mason City in 1907. Photograph by ...
( Category: Cities June 19,2020 )
Meteor Crater (9781439657331) by Davis Neal F
epub |eng | 2016-06-18 | Author:Davis, Neal F.

Stephen Verkamp (left) and Ralph Nye of Lowell Observatory are shown in 2008 removing the Verkamp Meteorite in preparation for transport to Lowell Observatory. In 1906, John George Verkamp set ...
( Category: Landmarks & Monuments June 19,2020 )

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