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 BOOKS : LOST BUILDINGS: DEMOLISHED, DESTROYED, IMAGINED, REBORN
Have you ever wished that you could have seen King Solomon's mighty Temple in Jerusalem or climbed to the top of the legendary Tower of Babel? What must it have been like to have paraded up and down the great glass galleries of the Crystal Palace in London in 1851? Why is the Euston Arch, demolished in 1961, still missed? What would buildings described in much loved books have been like if these had existed outside their author's imaginations?
Imagine walking through the labyrinthine corridors of Mervyn Peake's mythical Gothic fortress Gormenghast, or visiting Toad Hall. And what of the current trend for reconstructing buildings which were destroyed in wartime or for political reasons?"Lost Buildings" is an invitation to visit buildings long vanished or those demolished within living history, some by dim politicians, others by war or "acts of God", that we would pay good money and travel a long way to see, if only they existed, today.
It looks, too, at buildings from literature, myth and children's stories, and some lost opportunities - fantastic, ambitious designs that were never built. There are countless buildings that remain vivid in the collective memory, whether they were once real or were only ever imagined. "Lost Buildings" brings these together for the reader's curiosity and delight.
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BOOKS : GREEN GUIDE TO ARCHITECT'S JOB BOOK (SECOND EDITION)
A practical guide and reference book for architects and DIY enthusiasts who actively seek sustainable buildings, following the RIBA's outline plan of work, it takes the reader through from the first stage of the project right through to hand-over.
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 BOOKS : ARCHITECTURE IN WOOD: A WORLD HISTORY
Architecture in Wood: A World History by Will Pryce.
Publisher's statement: New from acclaimed photographer Will Pryce, co-author of the bestselling Brick: A World History, comes the first comprehensive history of the traditions and achievements of international wooden architecture. Pryce's spectacular photographs portray a dazzling, diverse collection of structures, spanning the globe and uniting the very beginnings of architecture with its 21st-century future, in which new buildings make a powerful environmental and aesthetic case for wood as a material for all time.
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 BOOKS : OAK-FRAMED BUILDINGS
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Green Building Press say 'Rupert Newman, brings this traditional craft fully up-to-date for the 21st century so the buildings featured are also sustainable and energy efficient . . . a brief history of framing, preliminaries, design issues, structural qualities, construction, and raising the frames, sustainability, moisture, ventilation and the breathing wall . . . a practical book on technique and superb resource for carpenters, builders and self-builders.'
Rupert Newman's company, West Wind Oak's web site has some interesting pages including one which outlines ways to shotblast and steam clean new oak beams: Oak from a sawmill has bluey black stains produced by the iron in the saw blades reacting with the natural tannin in the oak . . . then when it rains brown water stains come from water leaching out the tannin in the oak. The common way to clean the oak frame is by sandblasting away a thin layer of wood leaving clean bare timber. Use a non-ferrous grit. Then cover the frame with heavy gauge polythene. Any water stains can be washed out with a scrubbing brush and warm, soapy water but the whole beam will need to be done otherwise a 'tide mark' will be left. A better way is to use a steam from a wallpaper stripper with an upholstery attachment wrapped in a cloth and rubbed over the stain.
Ideally, wood should be hewn, not sawn and planed, and never treated. Thornton Kay of Salvo and his building company built untreated reclaimed oak structures and elements of buildings in the 1970's and 1980's, using traditional techniques. Green oak turns a pleasant silvery colour within a year. Hewn oak retains the cellular structure of the wood which makes it more durable than sawn wood. Many traditional frames were made from adzed coppiced oak roundwood, not felled oak trees sawn square, with all the waste that entails.
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