Seattle's Tom Kundig, of the firm Olson Kundig, draws on the mining and logging history of the Pacific Northwest to create homes with huge walls of rusted steel, exposed wood and steel beams and industrial sized doors.
The expansive play area, built by RipBang Studios, features a whale made of steel, wood decking and rope netting.
The LEXID (Lobster Eye X-ray Imaging Device) functions by "radiating objects with tiny amounts of X-ray energy, " subsequently allowing its user to see behind steel, wood or concrete.
Sit in the single, brushed steel and wood seat unveiled by the Queen of Norway in 2006, which offers awe-inspiring views of the cruise ships that appear like small matchstick boats on the crystal clear Gieranger fjord below.
Some competitors may put their liquid into a steel vat with wood chips and speak of aging.
The resulting work, consisting of two giant hulls (one steel, one wood) bisected by a large gap or void, was widely acclaimed.
The luxurious new Black Rock Oceanfront Resort is a curving sweep of glass, steel, and wood beside the rain forest and above a surge channel that boasts the best storm-watching in the West.
It hastened the conversion of passenger cars from wood to steel and led to improvements in railroad signaling.
Dow's materials-engineering center is busy brainstorming ways that plastic can be used to replace wood and steel in durable goods, particularly home appliances and auto parts.
And while the company says it is able to be drilled, tapped or screwed, its material properties are unknown compared to traditional materials like real wood or steel.
Strategically located on major trade routes, it was easy to reach by land and water, and endowed with high quality wood, steel tools and a variety of skilled labour.
He believes we can meet worldwide housing demand AND constrain carbon emissions by replacing steel and concrete construction with wood construction, that can even be applied to skyscrapers.
Replacing wood framing with recycled steel allows Blu to build foldable houses that can withstand high winds and heavy snow.
There is also the Walt Disney Concert Hall in LA, a still-unfinished plan that has mutated from wood to concrete to steel.
Cheng admires a carbonized-steel wok with a weighty magnolia wood handle and explains the difference between Shanghainese and Cantonese woks (the Shanghainese are deeper and rounder).
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His homes have a designer feel -- interior wood paneling, stainless steel kitchens, built-in bookcases -- packed into a space about the size of walk-in closets of upscale homes.
The result is very modern, particularly toward the back of the home: The dining room opens to the midcentury-modern and Japanese-influenced wood-and-steel kitchen, where double-panel cabinet doors are made from laser-cut steel and feature an abstract design modeled after a historic map of the neighborhood.
You cannot, he notes, do that with a steel mill or an automotive company or a wood-pulp mill.
Modern architecture is notable above all for the use of steel and concrete, and to a lesser extent wood, as building materials.
Floating wood stairs, suspended by stainless-steel rods, lead to a second floor, where a sparsely furnished living room and media room overlook the dining room below.
Construction materials for housing typically include lumber, wood, gravel, metal, iron, and steel.
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He darts between a network of steel pipes and drums, dumping fragrant ingredients such as cedar wood into a giant metal vat.
The frame is no longer assembled from laser-etched wood, instead there's a powder-coated steel frame with PVC plastic sides to help shield the various moving parts and lend an air of professionalism to the affair.
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The workshop has its own wood mill and wood shop, a trim shop to stitch and cut leather, and a steel-fabrication area.
The film therefore splits between their home town of Seattle (gray and blue, glass and steel) and the mountain stronghold of the Buddhist monks (red and orange, silk and wood).
The furnishings, though, looked much the same the modern taste of twenty years ago, boxy and stuffed, bare wood and monochrome wool, coffee tables of thick glass on cruciform legs of stainless steel, all mixed with Orientals and family antiques.
The latter will consist of three free-standing units a square glass pavilion (as a workroom for the sculptor's poet wife), a tall triangle of recycled steel (forming the sculptor's studio) and an arc-shaped monolith of untreated wood, whose patina will turn grey with age (for the couple's house).
According to a recent Greenpeace study, illegal wood charcoal is primarily used in Brazil to power smelters producing pig iron, which is used to make steel for industries including U.S. auto manufacturing.
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