Hints and tips:
...The roof, clad in reclaimed tiles, doubles as an amphitheatre, overlooking a wooden stage....
...You’re either paid to do someone’s tiles or you’re not. I’m not saying that this necessarily means you can say for certain that your work is any good....
...Dreaming Walls floats footage of Edie Sedgwick and Nico over the Chelsea’s tiles, as Ginsberg cries, “Holy, holy, holy!” down its stairs....
...The staircase, with its treacherously worn treads, may be 18th century, and some of the beams and exposed masonry older still, but its exterior has been insulated to 21st-century standards (no small feat...
...The crowd flowed between marble pillars, over crimson carpets and under arches skinned in thousands of tiny, mirrored tiles....
...Working with the Bartlett school, CSK extracted, collected and made an inventory of the abandoned Gothic masonry, creating a “digital quarry” of scanned stones....
...The failing old roofs had loads of plain tiles. Boston is known for [wavy] pan tiles, but they arrived after 1537. And that is too late for my building.”...
...On this view, brick and stone bonds are imitations of weaves in textiles, recalling memories of the tent as the basic form of shelter and walls as fabric rather than masonry....
...Instead, he enthuses about brick bonds, variations of fuel for kilns and misunderstood masonry in local churches. Making a brick is comparable to baking a loaf of bread....
...He moved on to a tiling firm called Cameron where he found his old-school masonry training at odds with modern systems of mosaic sheets and adhesive....
...Sam Hooper dodged falling roof tiles and masonry as he escaped from an office block during the devastating earthquake that struck Christchurch, New Zealand, a little more than five years ago....
...The bottom line was that the castle needed 10,000 cubic metres of masonry. Yet, if it sat on good bedrock, that stone and its haulage would cost nothing....
...San Miguel’s most ambitious project, however, is in town – the Artesana Residences close to leafy Parque Benito Juarez....
...Lights, sinks, tiles and copper pipes were packed up and sold to salvage merchants....
...A roof slater and tiler need to know how to make best use of an original roof covering and be able to use traditional methods for fixing both original and replacement tiles or slates....
...Watery courtyards and terracotta floor tiles were cool; thick masonry walls offered good insulation and windows allowed cross ventilation. Modern architects should take note....
...contemporary aesthetic with traditional, decorative elements, such as tiles and wrought iron....
...In the north, where winters can be severe, the homes have walls made of mud bricks or logs and roofs of clay tiles....
...The cantina is a large space with cream-coloured walls and a floor of sea-green linoleum tiles; the blinds are pulled firmly down over the windows....
...And as you speed back to the airport, laden with ceramic tiles that will break in your hand luggage, and half your body weight in pistachio-studded Turkish delight, you can reflect on only one thing: you...
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