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Stone
Castles On The Web
Coral Castle (Magical powers!)
(official site) See also
Stone Levitation
by Tibetan Monks!
Density formulae of various materials
Standing Stones, Ley Line and Power Points
NW Scottish Highlands
(looking to emigrate?)
Anglican Dioceses Map
(in search of a church to dwell in)
The Landmark Trust
restore historic
ruined buildings and
let them out for
holidays;
check out their exquisite
handbook. On one of their
Open Days,
I visited and photographed
Warden Abbey.
Medieval Architecture
in Britain main page, links to
Rievaulx Abbey near York
[I went there in 2003]
Digital Archive
of European Architecture main page, links to:
Virtual Tour of The
Abbey at Fontenay
Astonishing Cathedrals
at Church Crawler
Someries Castle near
Luton Airport
is now a ruin,
but well worth
a visit (O.S. map ref.
TL119201)
Stokesay Castle is a
fortified manor house built
in a splendid collage of architectural styles
22 miles south of
Shrewsbury which appears to have been faithfully copied as a
restaurant in Philadelphia, USA!
Lyveden New Bield
is an incomplete Elizabethan garden house and moated garden
(O.S. map 141; ref.
SP983853)
4 miles SW of Oundle via A427, 3 miles E of Brigstock, leading off A6116 near Peterborough.
Nearby is
Rushton Triangular Lodge - 1 mile W of Rushton, on unclassified road 3 miles
from Desborough on A6 (O.S. map 141; ref.
SP830831) (Kettering 5 miles)
Caves
Although I'm no caver myself, I was fascinated by reading
a fine book by Tony Waltham,
and subsequently got interested in
karst,
especially the limestone geology of
my favourite place in the
Yorkshire Dales.
See also
Peak District Caving.
Carlsbad Cavern
(Wikipedia)
in New Mexico is one of the world's largest caves -
"To state that
this room is BIG is an understatement." Within it is the
crystal
wonderland that is
Lechuguilla
Cave, which has been
photographed by
Peter Jones. See also some stunning images at
The Virtual Cave,
Cave Art and more about
the sounds of megalithic cave art.
Timber
The Classroom at Mellowcroft
Court Cottage in
Great Offley,
Hertfordshire
The Strawbale Studio at
Michael's Folly in Hertfordshire
Warden Abbey in Bedfordshire
Dartington Hall in Devon is
paradise on Earth
Gothic Barn:
Cistercian Abbey of Ter Doest, Lissewege (near Bruges in Belgium), 1275-1300
Edward Cullinan's timber
gridshell structure, the amazing Downland Gridshell and other
Innovative Structures
Little Moreton Hall is a fine timber-framed moated manor
house, best viewed from then air using
Kite Aerial Photography
- check out these
compact and
larger
KAP cameras.
Places to Visit from the
Yorkshire Vernacular Buildings Study Group
The Great Buildings Collection
Modern
Javier Senosiain - organic architect of
Nautilus House and
Quetzalcoatl Nest
Slashdot on
Full Spectrum lighting
Slashdot on Self-Cleaning Glass
Slashdot on
How mobile
phone masts 'vanish'; see also
Lots of pictures of cell-phone trees
(love the CEV Hatch boulder) and
More cell towers
Slashdot on
Transparent
Concrete (build me a crystal palace)
Slashdot on
Conductive Concrete
(build me a cosy castle) -
more on Conductive
Concrete for de-icing roads
Lodengraf is
comprised of lightweight, granular materials that, when placed inside or around a noisy item,
can dramatically reduce vibration and sound.
Radiant floor heating,
Invisible Heating: types of floor
and a Concrete Slab Floor diagram
4x4: Apartment Avant
Garde interactive DVD exhibition at the Royal Institute of British Architects Gallery,
Portland Place, London, and simultaneously in Glasgow, Manchester & Bristol in October/November
2001, curated by
Dennis Sharp Architects
featured the following:
The Lure Of The One-Off House
Abandoned Places and
Dark Passage
Furniture as Sculpture
My lovely
Grahl Duo Back chair and
Stokke Varier Variable kneeler chair
Ergonomic Computer Workstations
and chairs at
Back In Action
Slashdot on
Lego ASCII mosaic and
Lego desk, and not forgetting the
Lego harpsichord :-)
Slashdot on
The Periodic Table Table
(here's another)
Breslev & Partners office furniture
RJM Furniture classic and designer furniture
[FLASH website]
The Futon Shop in Sheffield
Woosh Bed at
Forge Ahead
Brown Dog Interiors in
Nottingham make some pretty cool made-to-order furniture
Perfect Furniture
just around the corner have cool locally-made sofas
Sustainable Construction
Mellowcroft is en route to the
Centre for Alternative Technology in Wales
SunRay Kelley's incredible houses
Earthships -
homes fit for humans, because
building sustainable homes should be mandatory
Alternative Technology Association in Australia
Strawdance
strawbale dance studio at
Michael's Folly and
what The Sunday Times didn't print
Strawbale House FAQ and
The Last Straw
Concrete, Straw, Timber Frame,
Log Home, Underground and Special Construction Books at
B4UBUILD.com
Construction Resources
near London Bridge, is Britain's first ecological builders' merchant and building centre.
They keep "updating" their website and breaking my links, so I'll leave it up to you to peruse their fine products...
They sell natural, biodegradeable
materials for
thermal and acoustic
insulation,
made from
flax,
wood pulp,
wood fibre,
coconut fibre,
recycled newspapers and
recycled jute sacking,
as well as
lo-tech solar absorbers,
solar roofs,
slow-burning wood stoves,
rainwater collectors,
waterless urinals,
windows,
naturally anti-static carpets,
clay boards and
bricks, and also
hollow timber blocks from
which walls and even whole buildings can be quickly erected (time to relive my childhood Lego
obsession and go build me a real house... ;-)
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