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"Bag End" was the real name of the Tudor home, dated to 1413, of Tolkien's aunt Jane Neave in the village of Dormston, Worcestershire. [15] [16] The scholar of literature and film Steven Woodward and the architectural historian Kostis Kourelis suggest that Tolkien may have based his Hobbit-holes on Iceland's turf houses, such as those at Keldur ...
Bone commissioned the architect Robert Altevers to design the principal buildings on the ranch, and the pair spent two and a half years researching potential designs and ideas. The 13,000-square-foot (1,200 m 2 ) main house was completed in 1982, based on a design by Altevers, [ 7 ] with formal gardens, a stone bridge, and a four-acre (1.5 ha ...
The tiny-house movement (also known as the small house movement) [1] is an architectural and social movement promoting the reduction and simplification of living spaces. [ 2 ] [ 3 ] [ 4 ] Tiny homes have been promoted as offering lower-cost and sometimes eco-friendly features within the housing market, and they have also been promoted a housing ...
Superheroes gather inside the Fortress of Solitude in Justice, art by Alex Ross.. In John Byrne's 1986 Man of Steel miniseries, which re-wrote various aspects of the Superman mythos, the Clark Kent persona was described as a "Fortress of Solitude", in that it allowed him to live as the ordinary person he saw himself as and leave the world-famous superhero behind.
The layout of Fujian tulou followed the Chinese dwelling tradition of "closed outside, open inside" concept: [citation needed] an enclosure wall with living quarters around the peripheral and a common courtyard at the center. A small building at the center with an open front served as an ancestral hall for ancestry worshipping, festivals ...
The Twilight Zone Tower of Terror, or simply Tower of Terror, is a series of similar accelerated drop tower dark rides located at Disney's Hollywood Studios, Tokyo DisneySea, Walt Disney Studios Park, and formerly located at Disney California Adventure.