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Building Benedictine Abbey
http://www.hotelspoletoin.191.it/ABE.htm
 
Alec Wilson on house design in the era extreme weather
to Prevent Climate Change is No Longer Enough =B7 Oct 1, 5:42pm via oikos Working to prevent or slow down climate change should continue to be a major focus of the building industry, but that is no...
 
any links for ARE exam study materials , sample tests
any help would be appreciated!
 
any study materials for the ARE exams?!
Hi All, Im specfically looking for ebooks that I can download off of usenet or torrents. Any help in pointing me in the right direction would be awesome! -Unemployed and willing to study!
 
Architecture Challenge: Top Prize $10,000
hi friends, Please visit for the details and specifications of the contest. Building safer climate resistant structures ahead of time is an endeavor that can radically reduce the number of injuries,...
 
Several years ago, I posted a NY TIMES article here about how Chinese architects and engineers have come to view preservation as an obstacle to progress in China.
I can't find that article. Does anyone remember it? Thank you.
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Post-and-Beam
Logs interest me less than PAB's, but maybe slightly more than sticks. I have a problem with the idea of many kinds of sticks, unless for smaller-scale homes, in which case, their scale renders...
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Design Notes: Collada Import/Joinery Detail; Mannequin-for-Scale-Viz
Rico, as promised; the exploded joint-detail Google 3D Collada-file- import seemed to work ok, using Blender and ACAD 10, and I'm pleasantly surprised it came in at perfect scale to my own posts...
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FA English Windmill Architecture 1930 Kent Surrey Sussex
English Windmills vol.1 Containing a history of their origin and development, with records of mills in Kent Surrey and Sussex by M I Batton ,Architectural Press.1930 1st edition. Volume one of this...
 
What the hell.....
....happened to this place. I take a sabbatical and the whole thing goes to hell. Maybe Mike should come back and scare some new life into the thing if thats possible.
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Shade Sails
------------------------------------- Hello all, For those of you interested in Shade Sails, Shade Structures and the like, here is a great company that can help you help yourself or just plain help...
 
Why Structural Fabrication Drawings?
Every business professional related with Construction Industry prefers structural fabrication drawings to any other. Structural fabrication drawings are famous in construction industry due to their...
 
Re: Metric Crazies
There was a little rain in the Buffalo area on Sunday, too, and it's measured in inches (and feet)....
 
Photo Essay: Bran Castle, the centre of legends
Under the motto "Bran Castle is coming back to life", the new administration is turning the castle into a place that offers more than history and culture.
 
A song about the Watts Towers
This is a tribute to a Los Aneles landmark written and performed by Stephen Jay Morris