Sentences with phrase «as a desert retreat»
Commissioned by Edgar J. Kaufmann Sr., the Pittsburgh department store magnate who had commissioned Frank Lloyd Wright about a decade earlier to build Fallingwater in Pennsylvania, the house was designed by Richard Neutra in 1946 as a desert retreat in Palm Springs, California.
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It's not exactly cheery viewing, as most of the animation involves deforestation, drying rivers and retreating glaciers, but you also see the irrigation of deserts in the Middle East and just the onward march of humanity in general.
And thus began a journey which included a retreat in a desert, some work as a catechist, military service and then, back in Spain, an encounter with people living in a shanty town.
And last Saturday he looked less than pugnacious attimes as he retreated to his ice - filled kennel to escape the desert heat.
The samples revealed long - held secrets of how desert - friendly species replaced tropical plants and animals as monsoon rains retreated farther south into the continent.
As some environmental analysts had hoped, President Obama and President Xi Jinping of China found room to maneuver on global warming in their California desert retreat.