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...For the past 21 years, Niederleithinger has worked at Germany’s Bundesanstalt für Materialforschung und -prüfung, the Federal Institute for Materials Research and Testing, or BAM as it is known....
...This was a system of timber framing using vertical posts, beams and diagonal reinforcements all infilled with masonry....
...Working with the Bartlett school, CSK extracted, collected and made an inventory of the abandoned Gothic masonry, creating a “digital quarry” of scanned stones....
...Chunks of masonry have fallen from his rundown home and the ceiling crashed down around his head....
...The Byzantine chronicler Procopius described its giant dome as appearing “not to be founded on solid masonry, but to be suspended from heaven by that golden chain”....
...In post-acquittal Washington, however, it’s just another piece of crashing masonry....
...Over time, cracks can open between the lime mortar and the masonry. This might, for instance, allow a wall to shift instead of collapse....
...It is no wonder the Royal Institute of British Architects is shortly to open its first base outside London in Liverpool....
...The masonry and the vaulted roof echo features of St Pancras station over the road....
...This is a network of architects — many championing classical design — which is run by Richard John, a former head of the Prince of Wales’s Institute of Architecture....
...Protection from the elements is key, explains Liam Dewar, director of Eurban, timber engineers and contractors, who says CLT has “a lifespan equivalent to concrete or masonry”....
...The brownstone veneer was removed and 10cm of exterior foam insulation was placed over the masonry with an equivalent thickness of insulation inside....
...Tombs and mausoleums would have lined the route, but very little of their adornments survive because later generations broke up the masonry for construction work....
...The Moore tornado was likely to prove the fifth costliest in the US, the Insurance Information Institute said....
...A change of attitude is necessary if modern earth buildings are to survive equally well as current construction practice promotes ‘maintenance-free’ products such as cement renders and masonry paints.”...
...Both were over the age of 75 and had been unable to flee fast enough as masonry crashed down on top of them. But they were two of only six fatalities in the village....
...“I believe important and powerful residential designs from this period will ultimately represent a leap forward in architecture,” says Joseph Rosa, chief curator at the Art Institute of Chicago’s department...
...Their strength enabled a minimal skeleton to replace masonry structures – windows could expand from floor to ceiling, floorplates could become deeper. This is the architecture of today’s city....
...In 2006 he completed Home in Water, another residential conversion, for a well-known Maltese photographer, as well as Two and a Half Lemon, a hip restaurant in a 16th-century masonry vault that blends a...
...One excellent case in point is “masonry infill” or “confined masonry” construction, in which structural elements of wood, reinforced concrete or steel surround rocks, bricks or concrete blocks....
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