Author : COMPTON. DAVIS
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2017
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1858946646
CITY OF WOODEN HOUSES.
COMPTON. DAVIS
City Of Wooden Houses
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Wooden Houses
Anonim
Author : Anonim
Publisher : New York : Abrams
Page : 286 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 1979
Category : Architecture
ISBN : MINN:31951000174579L
Wooden Houses by Anonim Pdf
Looks at hand-hewn wooden houses, barns, chalets, and storehouses in Switzerland, Germany, Austria, and Scandinavia.
All the Light We Cannot See
Anthony Doerr
Author : Anthony Doerr
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 560 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2014-05-06
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781476746609
All the Light We Cannot See by Anthony Doerr Pdf
*NOW A NETFLIX LIMITED SERIES—from producer and director Shawn Levy (Stranger Things) starring Mark Ruffalo, Hugh Laurie, and newcomer Aria Mia Loberti* Winner of the Pulitzer Prize and National Book Award finalist, the beloved instant New York Times bestseller and New York Times Book Review Top 10 Book about a blind French girl and a German boy whose paths collide in occupied France as both try to survive the devastation of World War II. Marie-Laure lives with her father in Paris near the Museum of Natural History where he works as the master of its thousands of locks. When she is six, Marie-Laure goes blind and her father builds a perfect miniature of their neighborhood so she can memorize it by touch and navigate her way home. When she is twelve, the Nazis occupy Paris, and father and daughter flee to the walled citadel of Saint-Malo, where Marie-Laure’s reclusive great uncle lives in a tall house by the sea. With them they carry what might be the museum’s most valuable and dangerous jewel. In a mining town in Germany, the orphan Werner grows up with his younger sister, enchanted by a crude radio they find. Werner becomes an expert at building and fixing these crucial new instruments, a talent that wins him a place at a brutal academy for Hitler Youth, then a special assignment to track the Resistance. More and more aware of the human cost of his intelligence, Werner travels through the heart of the war and, finally, into Saint-Malo, where his story and Marie-Laure’s converge. Doerr’s “stunning sense of physical detail and gorgeous metaphors” (San Francisco Chronicle) are dazzling. Deftly interweaving the lives of Marie-Laure and Werner, he illuminates the ways, against all odds, people try to be good to one another. Ten years in the writing, All the Light We Cannot See is a magnificent, deeply moving novel from a writer “whose sentences never fail to thrill” (Los Angeles Times).
Wood Houses
Ruth Slavid
Author : Ruth Slavid
Publisher : Abbeville Publishing Group
Page : 212 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2006-10
Category : Architecture
ISBN : UOM:39015066811186
Wood Houses by Ruth Slavid Pdf
A superbly illustrated survey profiling noteworthy new homes from around the world, all constructed from the architect's latest cutting-edge material-wood. Contemporary architects have long overlooked the great versatility of wood as a building material. Now, however, they have begun to adopt wood as the natural solution to a variety of design problems, and as a result, this environmentally sustainable material is becoming increasingly significant in today's domestic architecture. Wood Houses, by noted architecture journalist Ruth Slavid, displays the entire breadth of this important architectural movement by covering forty-six recently built homes. The featured houses range from Fernau and Hartman Architects' Mann Residence in Sonoma County, a timber-frame house with a strikingly decentralized plan, to 24H Architecture's Arjang House in , Värmland Sweden, a reindeer fur-lined, cedar-shingled lakeside retreat. Each house's profile is illustrated with not only the architect's own plans and elevations but also numerous full-color interior and exterior photographs that highlight the intrinsic beauty of wood. Slavid explores the background of the present wood-house renaissance in an introduction that covers topics as wide-ranging as timber-frame construction, the use of wood in an urban setting, and fire prevention. She goes on to illuminate significant trends in the field of wooden home design, such as timber's popularity as a construction material for vacation homes and the evolution of deliberately austere aesthetics from wood's innate qualities. Other topics include the liberation of wood from its familiar associations to serve as the basis of modern design and the current status of wood houses as part of a larger urban or suburban development. A helpful appendix features project credits and a glossary. This beautiful volume will serve as both a reference and an inspiration for anyone who designs, builds, or simply lives in wood houses.
Quebec City
A. J. H. Richardson,Geneviève Bastien,Doris Dubé,Marthe Lacombe
Author : A. J. H. Richardson,Geneviève Bastien,Doris Dubé,Marthe Lacombe
Publisher : University of Ottawa Press
Page : 604 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 1984-01-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9781772824032
Quebec City by A. J. H. Richardson,Geneviève Bastien,Doris Dubé,Marthe Lacombe Pdf
This volume contains biographies of over four hundred architects, artisans and builders who worked in Quebec during the first three centuries of the town’s existence. Detailed descriptions of their works, as well as numerous illustrations, help paint a broad picture of building in Quebec.
The Dutch House
Ann Patchett
Author : Ann Patchett
Publisher : HarperCollins
Page : 292 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2019-09-24
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780062963697
The Dutch House by Ann Patchett Pdf
Pulitzer Prize Finalist | New York Times Bestseller | A Read with Jenna Today Show Book Club Pick | A New York Times Book Review Notable Book | TIME Magazine's 100 Must-Read Books of the Year Named one of the Best Books of the Year by NPR, The Washington Post; O: The Oprah Magazine, Real Simple, Good Housekeeping, Vogue, Refinery29, and Buzzfeed From Ann Patchett, the #1 New York Times bestselling author of Commonwealth, comes a powerful, richly moving story that explores the indelible bond between two siblings, the house of their childhood, and a past that will not let them go. The Dutch House is the story of a paradise lost, a tour de force that digs deeply into questions of inheritance, love and forgiveness, of how we want to see ourselves and of who we really are. At the end of the Second World War, Cyril Conroy combines luck and a single canny investment to begin an enormous real estate empire, propelling his family from poverty to enormous wealth. His first order of business is to buy the Dutch House, a lavish estate in the suburbs outside of Philadelphia. Meant as a surprise for his wife, the house sets in motion the undoing of everyone he loves. The story is told by Cyril’s son Danny, as he and his older sister, the brilliantly acerbic and self-assured Maeve, are exiled from the house where they grew up by their stepmother. The two wealthy siblings are thrown back into the poverty their parents had escaped from and find that all they have to count on is one another. It is this unshakeable bond between them that both saves their lives and thwarts their futures. Set over the course of five decades, The Dutch House is a dark fairy tale about two smart people who cannot overcome their past. Despite every outward sign of success, Danny and Maeve are only truly comfortable when they’re together. Throughout their lives they return to the well-worn story of what they’ve lost with humor and rage. But when at last they’re forced to confront the people who left them behind, the relationship between an indulged brother and his ever-protective sister is finally tested.
The Ward Uncovered
John Lorinc,Holly Martelle,Michael McClelland,Tatum Taylor
Author : John Lorinc,Holly Martelle,Michael McClelland,Tatum Taylor
Publisher : Coach House Books
Page : 402 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2018-07-17
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781770565593
The Ward Uncovered by John Lorinc,Holly Martelle,Michael McClelland,Tatum Taylor Pdf
An archaeological dig uncovers the secret history of Toronto’s long-forgotten first immigrant neighbourhood. In early 2015, a team of archaeologists began digging test trenches on a non-descript parking lot next to Toronto City Hall -- a site designated to become a major new court house. What they discovered was the rich buried history of an enclave that was part of The Ward -- that dense, poor, but vibrant 'arrival city' that took shape between the 1840s and the 1950s. Home to waves of immigrants and refugees -- Irish, African-Americans, Italians, eastern European Jews, and Chinese -- The Ward was stigmatized for decades by Toronto's politicians and residents, and eventually razed to make way for New City Hall. The archaeologists who excavated the lot, led by co-editor Holly Martelle, discovered almost half a million artifacts -- a spectacular collection of household items, tools, toys, shoes, musical instruments, bottles, industrial objects, food scraps, luxury items, and even a pre-contact Indigenous projectile point. Martelle's team also unearthed the foundations of a nineteenth-century Black church, a Russian synagogue, early-twentieth-century factories, cisterns, privies, wooden drains, and even row houses built by formerly enslaved African Americans. Following on the heels of the immensely popular The Ward: The Life and Loss of Toronto's First Immigrant Neighbourhood, which told the stories of some of the people who lived there, The Ward Uncovered digs up the tales of things, using these well-preserved artifacts to tell a different set of stories about life in this long-forgotten and much-maligned neighbourhood.
Wooden Houses
Judith Miller
Author : Judith Miller
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 144 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2007-04-01
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 5557857958
Wooden Houses by Judith Miller Pdf
Judith Miller celebrates the decorative potential of wood in our homes, with photographs by James Merrell. Featured buildings range from Midwestern prairie clapboard houses with wraparound porches to wood-framed barns converted into airy living spaces.
The Case for Tall Wood Buildings
Michael Green
Author : Michael Green
Publisher : Blurb
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2017-02-06
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1366377419
The Case for Tall Wood Buildings by Michael Green Pdf
This book describes a new structural system in wood that represents the first significant challenge to concrete and steel structures since their inception in tall building design more than a century ago. The introduction of these ideas is driven by the need to find safe, carbon-neutral and sustainable alternatives to the incumbent structural materials of the urban world. The potential market for these ideas is quite simply enormous. The proposed solutions have the potential to revolutionize the building industry, address the major challenges of climate change, urbanization, and sustainable development and to significantly contribute to world housing needs.
How a House Is Built
Gail Gibbons
Author : Gail Gibbons
Publisher : Holiday House
Page : 36 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2014-01-24
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 9780823430857
How a House Is Built by Gail Gibbons Pdf
Houses are built with many different materials, and in many shapes and sizes. Step by step, this picture book explains how homes are built—from the architect's plans through the arrival of a happy family. The many processes of construction are explained with simple language and bright, clear illustrations, perfect for kids starting to wonder about how the world around them works. Many different careers—including carpenters, plumbers, electricians, and landscapers—are introduced, each doing their part to bring the picture wood-frame house to life. A great read for kids who love construction sites, or who can't get enough of Building a House by Byron Barton. According to The Washington Post, Gail Gibbons "has taught more preschoolers and early readers about the world than any other children's writer-illustrator." Ms. Gibbons is the author of more than 100 books for young readers, including the bestselling titles From Seed to Plant and Monarch Butterfly. Her many honors include the Washington Post/Childrens Book Fuild Nonfiction Award and the NSTA Outstanding Science Trade Book Award.
If I Built a House
Chris Van Dusen
Author : Chris Van Dusen
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 40 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2012-10-25
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 9781101652756
If I Built a House by Chris Van Dusen Pdf
The much-anticipated follow-up to the E. B. White Award-winning picture book If I Built a Car In If I Built a Car, imaginative Jack dreamed up a whimsical fantasy ride that could do just about anything. Now he's back and ready to build the house of his dreams, complete with a racetrack, flying room, and gigantic slide. Jack's limitless creativity and infectious enthusiasm will inspire budding young inventors to imagine their own fantastical designs. Chris Van Dusen's vibrant illustrations marry retro appeal with futuristic style as he, once again, gives readers a delightfully rhyming text that absolutely begs to be read aloud.
The Burning of Moscow
Alexander Mikaberidze
Author : Alexander Mikaberidze
Publisher : Pen and Sword
Page : 407 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2014-02-11
Category : History
ISBN : 9781473834491
The Burning of Moscow by Alexander Mikaberidze Pdf
As soon as Napoleon and his Grand Army entered Moscow, on 14 September 1812, the capital erupted in flames that eventually engulfed and destroyed two thirds of the city. The fiery devastation had a profound effect on the Grand Army, but for thirty-five days Napoleon stayed, making increasingly desperate efforts to achieve peace with Russia. Then, in October, almost surrounded by the Russians and with winter fast approaching, he abandoned the capital and embarked on the long, bitter retreat that destroyed his army. The month-long stay in Moscow was a pivotal moment in the war of 1812 the moment when the initiative swung towards the Tsar's armies and spelled doom for the invading Grand Army yet it has rarely been studied in the same depth as the other key events of the campaign.Alexander Mikaberidze, in this third volume of his in-depth reassessment of the war between the French and Russian empires, emphasizes the importance of the Moscow fire and shows how Russian intransigence sealed the fate of the French army. He uses a vast array of French, German, Polish and Russian memoirs, letters and diaries as well as archival material in order to tell the dramatic story of the Moscow fire. Not only does he provide a comprehensive account of events, looking at them from both the French and Russian points of view, but he explores the Russians' motives for leaving, then burning their capital. Using extensive eyewitness accounts, he paints a vivid picture of the harsh reality of life in the remains of the occupied city and describes military operations around Moscow at this turning point in the campaign.
Jewell's Digest of the City Ordinances
Anonim
Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 792 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 1882
Category : Law reports, digests, etc
ISBN : NYPL:33433014832970
Jewell's Digest of the City Ordinances by Anonim Pdf
Wooden Church Architecture of the Russian North
Evgeny Khodakovsky
Author : Evgeny Khodakovsky
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 176 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2015-08-11
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 9781317527206
Wooden Church Architecture of the Russian North by Evgeny Khodakovsky Pdf
The book presents a broad panoramic overview of church architecture in the Russian North between the fourteenth and nineteenth centuries. While it is inevitably overshadowed by the imperial splendour of the country’s capital cities, this unique phenomenon is regarded as the most distinctive national expression of traditional Russian artistic culture and at the same time as a significant part of humanity’s worldwide architectural heritage. The chief intention of the book is to present the regionally specific features of the wooden churches of the Russian North, which vary from area to area for local natural or historical reasons. This approach touches upon the very important questions of the typology and classification of the multiplicity of architectural forms. The "regional view" entails giving clear definitions of the ambiguous terms "architectural school" and "tradition", explaining the origins and shaping impulses for the different regional clusters of objects. Structurally the book presents a history of the development of wooden church architecture in the Russian North and then follows the key points of the mediaeval Russian expansion along the waterways from Novgorod into the North – he Svir’ River, Lake Onego, the town of Kargopol’ and the River Onega, the White Sea, the Rivers Dvina, Pinega and Mezen’ – those areas that still retain the most splendid pieces of Russian regional wooden church architecture. The study is based on field research and provides an up-to-date, multi-faceted view of Russian wooden architecture.
Victorian Wooden and Brick Houses with Details
A. J. Bicknell & Co.,Amos Jackson Bicknell
Author : A. J. Bicknell & Co.,Amos Jackson Bicknell
Publisher : Courier Corporation
Page : 115 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2006-01-01
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 9780486451039
Victorian Wooden and Brick Houses with Details by A. J. Bicknell & Co.,Amos Jackson Bicknell Pdf
Floor plans, elevations, and details of 54 residences (villas, cottages, and farm houses) and public buildings (churches, schools, banks, etc.).