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...With an interior structure of clay bricks, the exterior is fully covered in thatch, showing how this traditional roofing material can extend all over a building....
...The menus go long on classics – seafood towers, oysters, tartares – as well as pizzas, burgers and the island’s best club sandwich. oetkercollection.com Cornwall’s sweet coastal escape Olga Polizzi is...
...Theaster Gates’s “Roofing Exercise” works are paintings in tar and wood, layered in alternate shiny and matt strips, light breaking through the urban fabric (Gates’s father was a roofer): small dramas of...
...He combined glass walls and steel-plate roofing in harmony with typical Shinto elements such as shimenawa sacred straw and a kaguraden stage for ceremonial acts of worship....
...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....
...“It was the most unusual roofing job the firm had ever done.”...
...The sale does not include Mitie’s commercial painting and roofing refurbishment businesses, which are now part of its engineering services division....
...White wooden tiers are stacked with dust-red roofing, a confection that has been unfavourably compared with a Victorian wedding cake....
...James Lee Byars: Golden Tower Campo San Vio Rising above the Grand Canal between the Accademia and the Guggenheim, Byars’ 66ft “Golden Tower” is a thing of beauty, audacity and craziness....
...The model for Hepworth’s “Winged Figure”, the final version of which hangs above the John Lewis on Oxford Street in London, towers over a churning weir and rundown boat yard....
...Graeme Millar, managing director of Scotland-based heritage roofing specialist Bain & Irvine and vice-president of the International Federation for the Roofing Trade, says his European counterparts are “...
...“If we were to think about roofing as a labour, to have discipline, criticality, technique, style, to innovate, to have vocabulary, those things are no different from any other high-seeming culture....
...He found the strength to share his story with a fellow parishioner, and that new friend gave Cole a job as an estimator for his roofing company....
...Traditionally associated with car parks and tower blocks, concrete is increasingly finding its way into our homes....
...They redo the roofing as well as painting the house every three to four years,” says Hepburn....
...Now Stephen Bayley takes up the same themes, investigating everything from kitsch to industrial landscapes, Nazi regalia to concrete roofing tiles, grotesque animals to poverty, hirsuteness and gargoyles...
...The Gulf Arab countries have never had much fresh water or democracy, but the inhabitants have always had energy to burn when it comes to cooling large homes and sparkling office towers....
...Salim now cleans swimming pools for wealthy expatriates or does the odd bit of roofing work for smaller construction companies....
...Mr Viñoly is not new to roofing in awesome urban spaces....
...“Oh,” he says, “that’s the only house that has walnut roofing. It’s extraordinary roofing, it ought to be classified.” And it’s still there! Superb....
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