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...It is also investing globally in less-polluting building materials, including heat-reflective roofing materials....
...The Aim-quoted company found a way nearly 20 years ago to pickle softwood in acetic anhydride so that it is as tough as hardwood and will last half a century....
...Botanicals have been used in skincare for centuries, but new research has prompted a resurgence in plant-based brands....
...Reas explains that although thatching is more expensive than tile roofing, it saves money on energy bills by keeping the house at a consistent temperature....
...Alongside them, at the heart of the show, extracts from Andrei Tarkovsky’s film about 15th-century icon painter Andrei Rublev make a case for parallels between these 20th-century artists, searching for pure...
...Behind the façade, saw-tooth roofing, footbridges and a secret garden mimic the brand’s wool mill and nature park in Piedmont, northern Italy, where Ermenegildo Zegna started his company in 1910....
...The most remarkable of these, an adaptation rather than a new building, is his Stony Island Arts Bank, sited in a small but grandly conceived bank building from the early 20th century on Chicago’s South...
...may have been the decoration remit, but as far as spaces go, it’s all of a very NYC scale: some of the biggest on-average rooms in the city, a 650sq m outdoor dining and lounging space (with retractable roofing...
...Tange’s Pritzker citation says his Olympic stadiums have been described as “among the most beautiful buildings of the 20th century”....
...The problems affect groups that have long been among the most marginalised in society, in Britain and Europe, more generally, for centuries....
...A decade or so ago, when I wrote art reviews for The Moscow Times expat newspaper as a student, Russia’s contemporary scene could have only dreamt of something like GES-2, then a decaying century-old relic...
...It was in the quarries here that the Romans first sourced roofing slates to keep out the rain of Britannia. The last workings in Nantlle’s Pen-Yr-Orsedd Quarry finished in about 2000....
...It provides a haven for wild flowers and birds, grazing for livestock, and once provided roofing material in the form of marram grass for its inhabitants....
...The Swiss giant said it would buy roofing materials specialist Firestone Building Products for $3.4bn on Thursday....
...“It was the most unusual roofing job the firm had ever done.”...
...The remoteness of the Hebrides meant that modern roofing materials such as tile and tin were, in every sense, slow to arrive, and the survival of crofting culture here also preserved traditional building...
...Eventually he came across an 18th-century farmhouse in the hamlet of Tsurui....
...Alan Connell has been watching his family construction business bear the brunt of Britain’s often harsh economic weather for nearly half a century....
...Arab tiles commonly used as roofing are brought into play as lighting fixtures and as zigzagging gutters on the buildings’ exterior....
...China is absorbing the archipelago’s exports of timber, minerals, fish and palm oil and providing the Solomons with everything from cooking pots to roofing iron to plastic toys....
...Cranleigh, with its 19th-century drinking fountain and traditional English village green, turned out to be far from the only place to be riddled with asbestos cement pipes....
...It has hosted 19th-century “sugar barons”, presidents, princes and half the cast of Hollywood’s golden age....
...In the latter half of the 19th century, design was becoming a practice of its own....
...He had arrived in Paris at 18 from the small town of Compiègne in northern France, where his parents ran a small plumbing and roofing business....
...The past half-century of unseasonal heating and air pollution has wreaked havoc on slates that should easily last a century or more....
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