The honours were for its timber house at Fiscavaig on Skye.

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The Italian-accented Cornerstone restaurant brought one of the first open kitchens to Korea, but the showstopper spot for wining and dining is the Timber House lounge on the belowground level of the hotel.

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The Lord's Garden is now part of Nantclwyd y Dre in Ruthin, which is thought may be Wales' oldest timber-framed town house.

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While the foundations were being dug, a steel-and-timber-framed shell of the house was built off-site.

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Like Wright, Aalto was building a summer home for wealthy clients timber-fortune heirs Harry and Maire Gullichsen, who commissioned a house in Noormarkku, near the west coast of Finland.

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His ancestral house - once home to 11 brothers, a sister and his parents - is currently being used as timber storage.

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