16.11.2011   Build a beer

"There are," we are told, in addition to the magnates just mentioned, "hosts of comparatively small fry whose annual profits will pass the fifty-thousand-dollar mark." If an architect whose net income is only a thousand dollars a week belongs to the "small fry," what name would these journalists ... More..

16.11.2011   Constructing architecture

Incidentally, a trial was made of the effect of freezing on the concrete. The floor of a room arched in four bays, between iron beams, had just been finished when the weather became cold, and on the morning after its completion the thermometer stood at twenty above zero. The concrete had not been ... More..

15.11.2011   Skill development

Otherwise the accommodations are in both cases precisely the same. The total cost of this apartment-house, including the building-lot skill development valued at, say, $5 a square foot, has been carefully estimated at $617,771. This is the highest of two run my renovation competitive estimates ... More..

10.11.2011   Building construction types

This great establishment, richly endowed, was thus a magnificent piece of homage by the Scottish King to a principle which, especially under the bold and uncompromising guidance of its great advocate, had solely perplexed and baffled his royal neighbor on the English throne, and boded future ... More..

06.11.2011   Bamboo construction

Concentrated, 88, 119 Responsibility of Architects. The Dighton, 93 Rocks Upheaved by Hydraulic Pressure, 26 Roman Architecture, 36, 51 " Catholic Buildings in Australia, 107 " Fortifications, 180 " Tombs, 133 Romanesque Tombs, 163 ROME:-- Castle of St. To Prevent Wood from, 146 Royal ... More..

06.11.2011   Build it yourself home

Blomfield, Architect, 742 Board School, Bromley, Kent, Eng. Vacher & Hellicar, Architects, 739 Business Premises, London, Eng. Ernest Newton, Architect, 733 "Ca' d'Oro," Venice, Italy. The, 734 Castle Campbell, Clackmannan, Scotland, 739 Cathedral, Quimper, France, 742 (Gel.) Cawdor ... More..

05.11.2011   Mansell construction

Chamberlin & Whidden, Architects, 738 (Gel.) Kitchen, Castello di Vincigliata, Italy. Fancelli, Architect, 735 Painting by Puvis mansell construction de Chavannes in the Grand Hall of the Sorbonne, Paris, France, 743 (Gel.) Swimming-bath and Gymnasium, Grocers' Company'mansell construction s ... More..

01.11.2011   Co construct

A microscopic examination of the granules of the rock itself will show that many of them have had crystalline quartz deposited upon their surfaces, and in some cases rounded grains have in this way become almost perfect crystals. An examination of the best sandstones for building purposes shows ... More..

31.10.2011   Building blocks

Perhaps the circumstances that the stone is not in parallel laminж may have something to do with its durability, notwithstanding this latter fact. It would take a long Paper, and several evenings, building blocks to exhaust the subject even building blocks of our local stones. I may mention, ... More..

30.10.2011   Constructive trust

The gorgeous blues and crimsons of Diaz's "Coronation of Love," which Mr. Brayton Ives is fortunate enough to own, glow in a corner of one of the galleries--a bouquet of living color. It was pleasant to meet again a familiar picture in Millet's "Waiting," which the writer recalls often seeing at ... More..

29.10.2011   Renovation.com

Is it possible that there can be here any reference to the slaughter of Becket, to whom the abbey was dedicated? The historical circumstances connected with the foundation of this monastic institution are remarkable. It was founded and endowed by William the Lion, King of Scots, in the year 1178, ... More..

28.10.2011   Ngo

My experiments on the rate of seal-reduction through evaporation produced by back-venting were made with the greatest care and show a more rapid loss than is generally supposed. If the reports of these experiments are studied, it will be seen that every retro renovation precaution was taken to ... More..

27.10.2011   Building bridges

Mining engineers who have made a very careful examination and survey of much Western territory in the interest of Boston and New York moneyed men furnish evidences of building bridges wealth in those sections, which cannot but bring to them the money and enterprise necessary to their full ... More..

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