Buildings
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 )
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 )
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 ...
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 )
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 )
epub |eng | 2018-11-11 | Author:Christopher Boyle

( Category: Landmarks & Monuments June 29,2020 )
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 )
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 )
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 )
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 )
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 )
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 )
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 )
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 )
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 )