Architecture 

 Apr 22 2024

Wood Culture Tour - Exploring Nepal's Cultural Heritage

On July 22, 2023, a group of twelve members from the International Wood Culture Society embarked on

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 Sep 01 2022

Wooden Architecture at World Expo 2020 in Dubai

Wood is an outstandingly sustainable building material. This year EXPO 2020 was held in a desert env

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 Oct 26 2021

Jon Brooks Studio Furniture Maker

"My artwork is about collaboration with nature, using naturally formed hardwood, which is found

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 May 27 2020

Wooden Structure Duplicate of the Kileshwor, Lord Mahadev in Changu Narayan Temple

It took 9 days (a feat!), 531 timber pieces, 422 joints and 7 tons of reclaimed Sal Wood (local hard

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 Jan 28 2019

Wood Architecture in Change: Open-Air Museum Stubing & HoHo Vienna

HoHo Vienna, the 84 meters and 24 floors wooden skyscraper is scheduled to be one of the world&rsquo

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 Jul 08 2018

Traditional Wooden Shingle Making in Austria

  Wooden shingles as a roofing have a long tradition in Austria. There are several designs d

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 Jun 12 2018

Austrian Open Air Museum Stuebing

Established in 1970, the Open Air Museum Stuebing displays 97 reconstructed historic wooden peasant

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 May 24 2018

Wood Used in the Wieliczka Salt Mine

  The Wieliczka Salt Mine, located near Krakow, Poland, has been exploited since the 13th ce

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 Jul 19 2017

The Founder of the Chain Crab Restaurant - Tatsuro Hioki

Sitting in a washitsu (a style of Japanese room), you can see the server in kimono coming with great

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 Nov 20 2016

Behind the Bricks

On 25 April 2015, with a magnitude 7.8 Earthquake hit Nepal and major aftershock on 12 may 2015, Nep

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 Oct 11 2016

A Gift Returned

Renowned sculptor David Best, who has designed and built nine Burning Man temples at Black Rock Dese

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 Oct 10 2016

Brick by Brick - 2016 WWD Collaborative Project

The 2016 Collaborative Project kept exploring the possibilities among traditionally-different practi

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 May 19 2016

Reborn From The Ashes

Burning Man is a weeklong festival, a mega art event with many levels of presentation to provide a p

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 Aug 19 2015

San Miniato al Monte

San Miniato al Monte is a basilica located in Florence, Italy. The basilica is situated atop one of

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 Aug 17 2015

The Mountain Village- Abyaneh

Abyaneh is a small mountain village, located 55km to the north of Kashan. Its unique geographical tr

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 Jul 12 2015

Wooden Classroom, Lebanon

The event was aimed to help those Syrian children staying in refugee camps in Lebanon

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 Mar 12 2015

Windmills Museum in Zaandam

Zaanse Schans is one major attraction of Netherlands, where is famous by its well-preserved historic

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 Feb 16 2015

The Old Windmill

Nashtifan is close to the border of Iran and Afghanistan. Here, 120 days out of a year are windy, wh

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 Dec 29 2014

Choubin - The Wooden Village

There’s a village called Choubin in Neyshabour, which means “made of wood” in Pers

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 Dec 02 2014

Cedars of Lebanon

The Qadisha valley, which also known as the Holy valley, is one of the earliest Christian monastic s

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 Nov 27 2014

Olguin's Sawmill

  Adobe is also known as the southwest style of house in the U.S.. The houses are made of cl

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 Oct 24 2014

Haas-Lilienthal House

Encompassing the major cities and metropolitan areas of San Francisco, the San Francisco Bay Area is

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 Oct 08 2014

The Forest of Camaldoli

A thousand years ago, Saint Romuald founded the Sacred Hermitage and Monastery of Camaldoli in the f

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 Aug 10 2014

The Traditional House of the Dai People

Dai village is in transition from traditional materials to modern ones. Traditional Dai-style houses

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 Jun 24 2014

Hogan - Indian Traditional House

Along the road to Grand Canyon, there stand many a six-sided or eight-sided wooden house. They are c

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 Jan 21 2014

Old Timber, New Soul

The City of Georgetown, Penang, is known for its ancient, tropical ambiance and laid-back pace of li

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 Sep 22 2013

A Master of Sukiya-zukuri Style Architecture-Yoshiaki Nakamura

Kyoto, a city in central Honshu Island in Japan, had been the capital for Japanese emperors for cent

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 Nov 01 2012

An Overview of the Traditional Malay House

The traditional Malay house is a wooden one and serves the housing needs of people living in the rur

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 Sep 07 2012

Rieck Haus- Vierlander Freilicht Museum

The house of Rieck, built in the 16th century, was restored in 1949 and handed over to the Altona Mu

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 Sep 06 2012

Anzenau Mill Museum

The name Salzkammergut, meaning “Salt Chamber" in German, was derived from the Imperial S

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 Sep 06 2012

Bregenzerwald Valley

Bregenzerwald is in a valley situated between Lake Constance and the Arlberg Mountain that was once

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 Sep 06 2012

Hohenloher Freiland Museum

The Hohenloher Freilandmuseum is located in the village of Wackershofen. This fantastic open air mus

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 Sep 04 2012

Rabbit Town

Previously a carpenter, Mr. Ojārs Narvils now has turned himself into a rabbit-lover and has built t

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 Sep 04 2012

Gauja National Park

Latvia does not have any mountains, but yet is covered by forests for about 60% of land. In Gauja Na

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 Sep 04 2012

Renovation on Wooden Houses

A young renovator, Mateusz Niwiński, devotes himself to his favourite job, renovating old wooden hou

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 Sep 04 2012

Folk Architecture Museum

Folk Architecture Museum in Sanok is a young open-air museum aiming at bringing the ethnographic kno

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 Sep 04 2012

Church of St Michael the Archangel

Being one of the UNESCO heritage sites, St Michael the Archangel Church in Dębno was a Gothic c

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 Sep 04 2012

Čičmany

Čičmany, one of the most famous living villages in Slovakia, has the least information distributed o

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 Sep 04 2012

Vlkolinec - A Living Village

Being one of the few living villages listed in UNESCO heritage, Vlkolínec was reluctant to tu

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 Sep 04 2012

Liptov Village (Open Air Museum)

Arriving in the Liptov Village Museum, we were welcomed by a lively performance telling a story of h

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 Sep 04 2012

Orava Village (Open Air Museum)

Spreading over the meadows at the bottom of the Western Tatras, Orava Village signals a good locatio

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 Sep 04 2012

Old Rauma

Old Rauma is the largest Nordic wooden town with over 600 well-preserved wooden architectures from t

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 Sep 04 2012

A Tale of Two Villages

In 1997, Eksjo was awarded the Europa Nostra Diploma for its remarkable renovation of the traditiona

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 Sep 04 2012

Heddal Stave Church

Located at Heddal in Notodden municipality, Norway, Heddal Stave Church (Norwegian: Heiterdals kirck

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 Sep 04 2012

Latenium Museum

Laténium Museum is an archaeology museum located in Hauterive, suburb of Neuchâtel. Its

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 Sep 04 2012

Wooden Carved and Frescoed Houses

Bönigen is a small village in the canton Bern, which is located in the central Switzerland. Thi

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 Sep 04 2012

Schwyz

Schwyz is the capital of canton Schwyz, which is located in the central Switzerland. It has an area

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 Sep 03 2012

Wooden Structure in Venice

The foundation of Venice was constructed on vertical wooden piles, which has mostly remained intact

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 Sep 03 2012

Lello Bookshop

Lello Book shop is located in Porto. It was inaugurated on January 13, 1906, and designed by a noted

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 Sep 03 2012

Apuseni Mountain

One of the highest mountains in Romania, Apuseni Mountain, which belongs to the Western Carpathian,

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 Sep 03 2012

Colorful Crosses

Cut through by the Carpathian Mountains in the middle, Romania has the mountainous terrain from

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 Sep 03 2012

The ASTRA National Museum Complex

The ASTRA Museum of Folk and Civilization, one of the ASTRA National Museum Complex, is recognised a

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 Sep 03 2012

National Village Museum of Bucharest

National Village Museum, located in the Herastrau Park, north of Bucharest, was created by Dimitrie

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 Jun 06 2012

Tam-Awan Village

Tam-Awan Village is located in Pinsao Proper, Baguio City, and it is famous for reconstructions of t

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 Jun 05 2012

Penang

Penang, located on the northwest coast of Peninsula Malaysia by the Strait of Malacca, is the s

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 Jun 05 2012

Langkawi

The island of Langkawi, also named as the Jewel of Kedah, is located some 30 km off the mainlan

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 Jun 05 2012

Suburb of Kuala Lumpur

We traveled to the suburb of Kuala Lumpur where we have visited National University of Malaysia and

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 Jun 05 2012

Kuala Lumpur Downtown

Kuala Lumpur is the federal capital city of Malaysia and located in Peninsular Malaysia. The city co

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 Mar 27 2012

The Last Wooden House Village at Changbai Mountain

Gudingzi village (now renamed as JinJiang village) is located in the Fusong County, is famous for it

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 Jan 09 2012

Manyangguang Holy Hill

Manyangguang Forestry mostly lived by Dai people now, who use Dai language still. Dai language is 80

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 Jan 09 2012

Manfeilong Pagodas

Manfeilong Pagodas are called “Tanuo” meaning “bamboo tower” in the Dai lang

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