El Mogote has an air of increasing permanence: a stack of new wood for building blocks the mud track entering the settlement.
When settlers went west, they were faced with 50m buffalo and a vast expanse of native grassland yet precious little wood for building.
Modern architecture is notable above all for the use of steel and concrete, and to a lesser extent wood, as building materials.
Even more geriatric than the train is the wood-framed building that houses the Hastings Mill Store Museum, located across the city in the neighbourhood of Point Grey.
Intending to build a private English kingdom in the Zambian wilds, he shipped out grand pianos and fine wines from the mother country, while local labourers reproduced traditional English furniture from native wood and lugged building materials through the bush for hours.
In a brief interview, as he limped along on crutches in a wood-paneled academic building, Mr. Tourre jokingly lamented the fact that, as a 30-something, his body wasn't quite as resilient as it used to be.
In the Nasrid Palaces, a palace complex within the palace complex, the combination of building materials (wood, stone, ceramics and plaster) with traditional Islamic forms (intricate calligraphy, stuccoed ceilings and interwoven geometric patterns) reaches a point close to perfection.
Except for that shed, a small and simple building made from raw wood beams and salvaged church windows.
According to the Associated Press news agency, the fire spread quickly because construction workers had recently applied a flammable wood preservative to the exterior of the building.
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"All the stone walls are from rocks that were here, " Lowell told Quest, with Gere adding that many of its wood beams date back to the original building.
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The fact that wood is the most eco-friendly building material is an obvious reason for its use, but as Kantonen explains its aesthetic qualities are being rediscovered and appreciated again.
Opened in 2010, the light-filled building with its pale-wood furniture and splashes of bright blue and yellow prides itself on being an eco-friendly hotel that pays close attention to its energy and water consumption and contributes to the community (for example, the mostly organic breakfast is provided by local bakers and greengrocers).
The traditional design and practices for building these bridges combine the use of wood, traditional architectural tools, craftsmanship, the core technologies of beam-weaving' and mortise and tenon joints, and an experienced woodworker's understanding of different environments and the necessary structural mechanics.
Leanne Wood said although the party's policy is against building new nuclear power stations, Plaid would work to create jobs on the island.
The Kabul headquarters of the aid organization CARE International still reeks of scorched wood nearly a week after rioters set fire to the building.
Bernard laying outside the wood doors of the sixty year old yellow cement and stone building, into the carpeted lobby to the reception area.
They finally started construction in 2003 and gutted the entire building and even reinstalled the landmarked stoop and rebuilt the wood-burning fireplaces.
To sell the Baccarat Residences, a 50-story glass condominium tower under construction across from the Museum of Modern Art in midtown Manhattan, a model set up in the building's showroom includes striking materials like lacquered ziricote-wood walls and a crackled bronze sculptural wall embedded with tiny pieces of glass made by a British artist.
The Rice Mill Lofts, a riverfront apartment complex that Cummings plans to turn into a hub for creative-types looking for long-term vacation stays in New Orleans, was built in 2011 using reclaimed wood from the Mississippi River and is decorated with graffiti leftover from when the building sat vacant after Katrina.
Not far from Zhencheng Lou, the Huanxing Building (Huanxing Lou) was torched by Taiping troops (the prevalence of wood made them particularly combustible) and was later badly damaged during fighting in the 1920s, leaving part of one wall missing.
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