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Author
Publisher
linkedin.com
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
Learn to build roofs with Revit: from flat roofs to crazy free-form roofs and everything in between (hip, gable, mansard, Dutch hip combination, and gambrel).
What's a room without a roof? This course covers the topic of adding roofs, roof framing, and detailing with Revit: from flat roofs to fun, free-form roofs and everything in between (hip, gable, mansard, Dutch hip combination, and gambrel). Eric Wing dives into flat roofs first, showing how...
Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
What's the best way to build a church's ceiling? This episode takes you through the evolution of church roofs"”from flat wood ceilings to stone barrel vaults to magnificent ribbed vaulting. Without these developments, you'll discover, there could have been no Gothic cathedrals.
3) Rooftoppers
Author
Language
English
Appears on list
Description
When authorities threaten to take Sophie, twelve, from Charles who has been her guardian since she was one and both survived a shipwreck, the pair goes to Paris to try to find Sophie's mother, and they are aided by Matteo and his band of "rooftoppers."
Author
Publisher
Little Libros, LLC
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
"La azotea de mi abuela is a beaming tale of the love and bond between a granddaughter and her abuela. Abuela's rooftop is their haven, a place to make life-long memories, and is endlessly filled with new discoveries... ...until it's time to head back home. This picture book is an ode to finding joy in the little moments and the special bond between a young girl and her grandmother."--Page [2] of cover.
La azotea de mi abuela es una radiante historia...
Author
Series
Publisher
Love Inspired
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
"Fighting his way back from a troubled past, handyman Angus "Witt" Wittenbauer needs refuge. When dog sanctuary owner Maddie McNeill needs someone to fix her kennel's roof, it seems like the answer to his prayers, especially when he's reunited with his long-lost dog, Ranger. His growing friendship with Maddie hints at the promise of something more, but will Witt ever feel deserving of love again?"--
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
Tracy Kidder is a winner of the Pulitzer Prize and the author of the bestsellers The Soul of a New Machine, House, Among Schoolchildren, and Home Town. He has been described by the Baltimore Sun as the "master of the non-fiction narrative." This powerful and inspiring new book shows how one person can make a difference, as Kidder tells the true story of a gifted man who is in love with the world and has set out to do all he can to cure it. At the...
Author
Publisher
Creative Homeowner
Pub. Date
c2011
Language
English
Description
"Front porches encourage socializing with friends and neighbors; back porches provide refuge from life's stresses--which best suits you? Expand living space by adding an amenity-packed front, back, or side porch. Professional builders share their porch-raising secrets. Old-fashioned front porches, screened-in porches, porch-and-deck combinations, and more. Inspiration and practical advice for designing and building porches."--from cover, p. [4]
Author
Publisher
Kyle Books
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Description
Short of outdoor space but want to grow fruit and vegetables? Congratulations. Really, lucky you. Not for you the back-breaking trudge of tending large spaces of land, the weeding, digging and pest vigilance. Gluts? They will mean nothing to you. Instead you can look forward to small but perfectly formed bursts of flavour. Handfuls of fresh leaves, berries and tomatoes, just when you want them, and at arm's reach. As more of us live in cities with...
Author
Publisher
Sky Pony Press, an imprint of Skyhorse Publishing, Inc
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
This book has been updated for Minecraft 1.12, the World of Color update that added new function and crafting systems, illusioners, parrots, and building materials like glazed terracotta and concrete. Our tips will help gamers find the best locations, choose their favorite style, learn how to get started with foundations and walls, become landscaping experts, learn how to decorate their living room, and much more!--Back cover.
Author
Publisher
Ten Speed Press
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Description
"If you'd like to grow your own food but don't think you have the space, look up! In urban and suburban areas across the country, farms and gardens are growing atop the rooftops of residential and commercial buildings. In this accessible guide, author Annie Novak's passion shines as she draws on her experience as a pioneering sky-high farmer to teach best practices for raising vegetables, herbs, flowers, and trees. The book also includes interviews,...
Author
Publisher
Frances Lincoln
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
"This fully revised and updated book is the authoritative guide on how to look after your old house - whether it is a timber-framed medieval cottage, an eighteenth-century town house or a Victorian or Edwardian terrace. Written in association with The Society for the Protection of Ancient Buildings, the authors' approach is one of respect, restraint and repair rather than 'restoration', which can so easily and permanently destroy the special qualities...
Author
Publisher
Oxford University Press
Pub. Date
1999.
Language
English
Description
"In this study, Betsy Hunter Bradley sets forth the terms of the type of analysis that industrial architecture demands. She explores the rationale behind the pragmatic design and functional beauty of American factory buildings and "the works" complexes in which they often stand. While tracing the important developments in industrial architecture over a one-hundred-year period, she demonstrates that as the United States became an industrialized nation,...
Author
Publisher
DK Publishing
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
"Discover how to build your dream LEGO houses - with tips and techniques from expert LEGO builders. Create 30 incredible LEGO homes. Build a beautiful thatched cottage, make a cool treehouse, create a fantasy home with a slide, spook your friends with a haunted house, and much more. From foundations and roofs to balconies and microscale buildings, learn everything you need to create your own LEGO houses. You can build anything! "--
Publisher
Lyons Press
Pub. Date
[2004]
Language
English
Description
From removing graffiti in Manhattan to rebuilding a hops barn in Oregon, the National Park Service-a part of the Department of the Interior-has faced just about every problem an old structure can encounter. Here for the first time is a collection of their hardwon know-how and official guidelines, written by the top experts in their respective fields of preservation. Forty-two fully illustrated chapters include: -- cleaning and waterproof coating for...
Author
Series
Publisher
The Taunton Press
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Description
Here for the first time is a complete visual handbook designed for architects, builders, students, and anyone else interested in wood-frame construction. Inside you'll find hundreds of meticulous drawings illustrating every detail you might ever want to know about when building wood, whether you're building basement walls or framing a chimney opening. This wealth of visual information is mined from actual jobsites. Special attention is given throughout...
Author
Publisher
Down East Books
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
This book does not repeat basic information that is readily available in many standard DIY books about carpentry, wiring, and plumbing. Rather, it shows how to adapt those DIY skills to the specialized needs of a historic house. Although there are other books about renovating old houses, this is the first that prioritizes the identification and preservation of the historic, character-defining features of a house as a starting point in the process....
Author
Publisher
linkedin.com
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
Learn how to use Photoshop to create a custom slate texture that's great for modeling building interiors (floors) and exteriors (roofs).
Slate is a popular design choice for modern flooring and roofs, but getting an accurate slate texture out of the box for your models can be hard. With this installment of Creating Textures, you can build a custom slate texture in Photoshop and put it to work in the 3D modeling program of your choice. Adam Crespi...
Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
The need for roofs spanning large enclosed spaces led to a startling number of new structural systems in the last 200 years. Look closer at long-span structural configurations in places such as the Houston Astrodome, the Berlin Hauptbahnhof, and even the Hartford Civic Center (the collapse of which offers a lesson in the risks of innovation).
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