Sentences with phrase «many wooden buildings»

[It] was a wooden building, and it was burning so fast that when I got my guitar, it started to collapse around me.

Sir Richard Branson was hosting actress Kate Winslet and 20 other guests at his private Necker Island retreat in the British Virgin Islands on August 22, 2011, when lightning struck the wooden building and set it ablaze.

It was a wooden building, painted white outside and stained brown inside.

I know in the African American community we have some that are still worshiping in the same wooden buildings that were built in the late 1800s and early 1900s.

It's at St Peters Scout & Guide Hut, off Green Lane (the wooden building in the corner of the car park behind St Peters Church), Hazel Grove, SK7 4EA.

For starters, the HABA Round n» Round Discovery Set definitely functions as a traditional wooden building block set.

Wooden building blocks never go out of style — durable, creative, open ended toys that allow for hours of exploration.

Roy Toy wooden building sets encourage creativity and give children a genuine pride of accomplishment.

This final quality played a pivotal role in its decline as a structural material for large buildings, says David Barber, a Washington, D.C. - based fire engineer and expert in wooden buildings at the engineering firm Arup.

«Until these kinds of innovative products or design methods or construction methods are in the code, they're not likely to be widespread,» says Eric Karsh, a principal engineer at Equilibrium Consulting in Vancouver, who has worked on other tall wooden buildings.

As fire storms swept through cities built chiefly of wood — San Francisco, California, in 1851 and 1906; Chicago, Illinois, in 1871; Boston in 1872 — insurers and officials discouraged tall wooden buildings in favor of less combustible material.

In 2013, Green's 29 - meter - tall Wood Innovation and Design Centre in Prince George, Canada, earned bragging rights as what was then the tallest wooden building in North America.

Although CLT has been around for a quarter - century, tall wooden buildings are only now taking off.

For Organschi, like many in the field, the measure of success will be when a new 10 - story wooden building is considered as unremarkable as the antique sitting in downtown Vancouver once was.

«We're in sort of the early, early days of this,» says Michael Green, a Vancouver architect who has gained international attention for evangelizing about the potential for tall wooden buildings.

The beams and panels in today's tall wooden buildings, however, are a far cry from natural wood.

And because the world of Rockstar's latest is already historic, documented, filmed, it appears just as we've come to expect the Wild West to appear: dusty sand dunes, dry tumbleweeds, cheaply built wooden buildings, moustached sherifs, cheap prostitutes — it's Stagecoach, Tombstone, For a Few Dollars More, in style and substance.

I imagined she was completely empty in there, her bones rattling inside of the withered sack of her self, like my wooden building blocks in their canvas bag.

It's in this big old wooden building and nobody ever goes in there.

He has a map of the shoreline in his brain; its docks and rundown wooden buildings, a few trees grown in the last century.

Iwokrama Forest - in Search of Jaguar The capital Georgetown epitomises faded elegance with fine wooden buildings and a riot of tropical vegetation.

The Riverside Guest House boasts a collection of old wooden buildings and a garden setting right on the river, making it exactly what the flashpacker set and families travelling with children are looking for.

The sun - drenched city of Puerto Plata treats guests to colourful wooden buildings and a lively atmosphere.

Located in a large two - storey concrete and wooden building next to the dock, the rooms here don't have river views and aren't bungalows.

Ålesund is also architecturally unique from other Norwegian cities, as there are almost no wooden buildings.

The Cassowary Café is a timber building which consists of two wooden buildings with a wrap - around veranda.

Wander to Downtown Hilo, where you'll find antique stores, vegan eateries, coffee shops, and galleries tucked within centuries - old wooden buildings.

A beautiful location at the end of the picturesque Sjøgata street, Fru Haugans Hotel has holds the distinction of being Northern Norway's oldest preserved adjoining wooden buildings.

The rooms are on the first floor of a two - story wooden building.

All sleep two: choose from the Riverside Villa (the most spacious), the Garden Suite, the split - level Chinese suite and the Thai House, an old wooden building brought down from Ayutthaya.

The simple beam and post construction allows rich wooden building materials to open the massive vaulted interior space and create a warm, inviting ambience.

A careful look at the coaster also shows fun details along the route, including wooden building blocks and even a larger - than - life figure of the dinosaur Rex.

The living pavilion is itself an antique — a restored 100 - year - old joglo (traditional wooden building) from Java that was once part of a nobleman's house.

Here we enjoy a walking tour, taking in the beautiful Todai - ji Temple, the largest wooden building in the world and its Great Buddha, Kasuga Shrine and the Deer Park.

Explore the narrow streets and wooden buildings of this historic city that dates back to the end of the 16th century.

Creatively designed wooden buildings house simple rooms with attached bathrooms with either hot water or cold.

Puripunn is situated in the midst of what is now a heritage zone that is home to the city's greatest concentration of antique wooden buildings.

I arrived at the ferry terminal, a small wooden building in the harbor, not quite sure what to expect.

The old wooden buildings are on the UNESCO World Heritage list, and have been damaged by fire several times.

The first building within the palace grounds to be built in 1919 was Tamnak Prathom, a traditional Thai wooden building assembled by craftsmen.

The neutral palette is calming, with wood - patterned tiled floors and whitewashed wooden built - in furnishings.

The air traffic control tower was a very small wooden building on stilts.

Many wooden buildings remain in the town except in the more modern south - west corner.

Explore the traditional wooden buildings still preserved there.

Wenshu Temple hosts the largest temple in Chengdu, and is home to more than 450 Buddha statues and other precious antiques, as well as 200 wooden buildings that were restored in the late 17th century.

Points of interest include the Art Nouveau centre, which has UNESCO World Heritage site status, museums and concert halls, the medieval Old Town and wooden buildings.

There is a hut in the woods, a 140m2 wooden building which offers a quiet yoga practice and meditation connected to the earth, surrounded by nature.

We stayed in the Thai House during our 2014 revisit, an old wooden building with beautiful carved arches, whose home was once Ayutthaya before it was dismantled, transported and reassembled here, piece by piece.

Further north at Coromandel the town's gold mining past is visible in the restored wooden buildings lining the main street.

Instead of gleaming buildings and carefully manicured gardens Skyrim's cities will more closely resemble Bruma with wooden buildings and a rough - looking building design.