Sentences with phrase «ancient building materials»

The dining room mixes ancient building materials with beautiful contemporary furniture and art, while the kitchen is all high - tech, all the time.

Scientists and architects across the globe are trying to adapt this ancient building material for the demands of the modern city.

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Companies throughout the world are building new formulas and product concepts around the «ancient grains» category of ingredients and this marks the first customer to include RBT's proprietary rice bran raw materials as part of an «ancient grains» formulation.

The ancient Maya who built the great cities of Tikal, Palenque and Calakmul used the region's trees for building material and fuel wood.

Using only the types of raw materials available to the ancient Greeks, students built their own machines and then tested them for distance and accuracy.

Due to the scarcity of wood, [1] the two predominant building materials used in ancient Egypt were sun - baked mud brick and stone, mainly limestone, but also sandstone and granite in considerable quantities.

Looking specifically to the shapely vessels of Classical Greece, the artist's hand - built objects marry ancient ceramic techniques with modern industrial materials such as neon and machined metals.

He then uses an assortment of tools, including chisels and Japanese carving instruments to meticulously hand - sculpt each form, using imagery from skateboard culture as inspiration... Haroshi's technique is akin to the ancient Japanese tradition of building wooden Buddha statues, including the conservation of materials to minimise weight and embedding an object inside the sculpture.»

An exhibition around the language of buildings and modern and ancient ruins, «Kiosk» was born from both artists» tacticle knowledge of the surface walls, metallic materials, and even the torn pages of the building kiosks.

The ancient Romans may have pioneered the use of this crushed and baked version of limestone, but as a universal and ubiquitous building material, it began to appear only in the last 100 years.

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