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...There are hints in its dreamlike, stage-set nature of adobe villages and of the strange cityscapes painted by Metaphysical artist Giorgio de Chirico, whom the architect admired....
...There are many different versions of adobe worldwide....
...comfortable family-run places, mostly wooden cabins with roofs of corrugated iron; or even compared with the far glitzier and more expensive Alto Atacama resort we had stayed at in the desert, a huddle of low adobe...
...“Oh, you’ll have no trouble getting to know the folks here,” says Rick Jaynes, settling me into Duquesne House, an absurdly pretty adobe inn decorated wall to wall with Mexican folk art and textiles....
...Even the grandest still have strong agricultural associations and most are built from adobe....
...Prices are far below peak levels and there is a glut of golf-course villas on the market. In many golf-course communities, the average home takes six months or longer to sell, agents say....
...Twenty years ago he had played a part in building Adobe Guadalupe, the valley’s seventh winery....
...Santa Clara would be a dustbowl were it not for its tight patchwork of adobe houses, bodegas (convenience stores) and car workshops....
...On each of the long sides of the rectangle, they built little houses of adobe-like pau-a-pique with wood shingle roofs....
...For those for whom proximity to the sea is more important than privacy, there are also eight thatch-and-adobe bungalows set right on the sand....
...All the wood was reclaimed – he speaks of sourcing timber from old docks and boats – and many of the interior walls are made from local handmade adobe mud-brick....
...Vistalba apart, the other place to stay in Agrelo is the new Relais & Chateaux Cavas Wine Lodge where 14 fabulously appointed adobe villas dot a 35-acre vineyard....
...Details Hill Villa Suites start at £785 per night....
...www.octagon.co.uk Villas by Hadid Zaha Hadid, the only female recipient of a Pritzker Prize, recently designed two villas in the Swiss town of Küsnacht, a leafy lakeside community outside Zurich....
...But Shawali Bahani’s house bears little resemblance to those traditional adobe constructions....
...The American Pavilion has Adobe attached giving demonstrations of its filmmaking software....
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