The latest installment loses the ancient cupolas and marble temples of Renaissance Italy for the cramped, squat cities of wood and brick and the boundless frontier of 18th century America.
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The food is approachable French (think steak frites, charcuterie and puff pastry-wrapped escargot) and the large space is rustic-urban (vaulted ceilings, unadorned wood tables and exposed brick).
It still has the old Reading Transport colours of crimson and cream and is made of brick, wood and glass panels, some of which have been broken by vandals.
The balanced use of brick and wood reflects the elegant restraint of the early federal style.
In Longmen village, which state media named as the epicenter of the quake, dozens of houses had been destroyed mostly older structures made of brick and wood but by Sunday afternoon any casualties had already been removed from the scene.
If your tolerance for Brooklyn preciousness is low, limit yourself to dinner and resist the urge to check out the hotel rooms upstairs: they are lovely in a reclaimed-wood-and-exposed-brick kind of way, but the twee factor is pretty intense.
The Bradleys hired an architect to photograph and measure every inch of the house, including its eight brick horse stables, extensive wood paneling and massive fireplaces.
He booked himself into the best hotel he could find in Arromanches, a pile made of brick, stone, and wood, which creaked in the gusting wind.
Inside the three-bedroom house are exposed brick walls, three wood-burning fireplaces and a kitchen with butternut-wood cabinets.
Housed in the ultra-modern Stanley Plaza shopping centre but tucked away on its quiet upper levels, The Cupping Room is a welcoming space blending industrial design details (exposed ducts, white brick walls, wood-top tables) and warm, personable service.
And even though Alan had never been in the hotel or real estate business, he had an unbelievable clarity of vision I'll never forget, in 2000, he walked me through this gutted brick structure and was describing the color of the curtains, the type of wood floor, the long bench in the entrance.
These established his reputation and helped to transform Boston from a colonial town built mostly in wood to a federal city predominantly of brick.
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