epub |eng | | Author:Mira Locher

Chapter 11 Floors In the earliest Japanese dwellings (flat-land and pithouses), floors were earthen, merely tamped to make a firm surface. Although simple to construct, the floors were damp all ...

epub |eng | | Author:Michel Arnaud

epub |eng | | Author:Azby Brown

Like their counterparts around Japan, these town-houses are models of natural climate control for high-density urban areas. Most have been designed with tiny gardens in back, and quite a few ...

epub |eng | 2016-11-29 | Author:Seligmann, Ari [Seligmann, Ari]

Fig. 3.5 Tokyo Central Telegraph building, rooftop garden. (Courtesy of NTT Facilities Inc.) The rooftop garden provided an amenity for the office workers and highlighted further building and nature relationships ...

epub |eng | 2016-08-01 | Author:Daniel Chavkin

Residences Holub House Rancho Mirage 1957 Architect: William F. Cody Designed by Cody for David C. Holub, who was an early president of the board of directors for Tamarisk Country ...

epub |eng | 2016-03-29 | Author:Leland M. Roth

8.35. Eliel Saarinen, Tribune Tower competition entry, 1922. Saarinen’s entry in the Tribune Tower competition was felt by many architects to be superior to the design given first prize. It ...

epub |eng | 2015-02-11 | Author:Wilson, Thomas D. [Wilson, Thomas D.]

The Trustees resisted constant appeals to remove the prohibition on slavery by instructing William Stephens in no uncertain terms that it would never be allowed. With a hope of putting ...

epub |eng | 2014-04-17 | Author:Alice Sinkevitch

Illinois National Guard, Thirty-Third Division—Northwest Armory Humboldt and Kedzie Blvds. and Logan Square No part of the twenty-eight-mile boulevard system offers more pleasure than the drive from Humboldt Park to ...

azw3 |eng | 2016-04-07 | Author:Davis, Geo & Shepard, Katie [Davis, Geo]

Doodle Game 14. Billings Stone Cottage Located on the southwest corner of School Street and Elm Street, Billings Stone Cottage is a Federal period cottage that was constructed by stonemason ...

epub |eng | | Author:Sarah Rutherford

An idealised interior, designed by Barry Parker for his brother Stanley, in Letchworth Garden City, 102 Wilbury Road. Arts and Crafts and historicist styles were strong themes, as epitomised in ...

epub |eng | | Author:Marcia Iwatate & Geeta K. Mehta

The façade of the Roundscape House faces the train tracks of Japan Railways and Setonaikai Bay in the distance. In contrast to the adjoining house lots where the sloping ground ...

mobi | | 2004-06-10 | Author:Jim Rasenberger

A few weeks after the McNamaras’ arrest, a tall, stooped, unkempt figure walked into their prison cells and introduced himself. The man did not look much like a beacon of ...

epub |eng | | Author:Jan Arnett

Dairy cattle move and eat freely in this large, open pole-frame metal structure. This weary barn will soon fall victim to a strong wind or heavy snow. Other changes affecting ...