wooden

The largest clear-span wooden building in the world – Tillamook Air Museum

March 17, 2013

The largest clear-span wooden building in the world – Tillamook Air Museum

The largest clear-span wooden building in the world, constructed entirely without glue wood, was built as a U.S. military air station hangar. It is now the Tillamook Air Museum in Oregon.

…read more

Wooden chandelier, Northern Rockies Lodge

July 9, 2012

Wooden chandelier, Northern Rockies Lodge

Chandelier at Northern Rockies Lodge on Muncho Lake, Northern BC. Wooden rounds each hole-sawn to house a pot light. It was really quite beautiful.

The lodge is on the Alaska Highway that stretches from Dawson Creek BC to Alaska.

…read more

Oldest known Neanderthal house found in Ukraine – made from woolly mammoth bones

December 22, 2011

Oldest known Neanderthal house found in Ukraine – made from woolly mammoth bones

Why do discoveries of ancient houses make me so happy? A 44,000 year old Neanderthal bone house has been found near Moldova in Eastern Ukraine. It’s a nearly circular structure made from woolly mammoth bone, and it’s 26 feet wide at its widest point – that’s pretty substantial, the same width as the little church I live in.

…read more

John di Castri, wooden “Trend House,” Victoria

December 1, 2010

John di Castri, wooden “Trend House,” Victoria

John di Castri is one of Victoria, BC’s best known architects. This house seemed strangely familiar to me, and then I discovered that di Castri had left Victoria for Oklahoma to study for three years with Bruce Goff (see Goff’s influence here).

…read more

1 2 3 4