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A tile-based video game, or grid-based video game, is a type of video game where the playing area consists of small square (or, much less often, rectangular, parallelogram, or hexagonal) graphic images referred to as tiles laid out in a grid. That the screen is made of such tiles is a technical distinction, and may not be obvious to people ...
Bali Aga village layout with house compounds facing a broad avenue. Each house compound contains individual houses, each belonging to a nuclear family. The bale lantang in Tenganan village, a distinctive feature of a Bali Aga village not found in anywhere else in Bali, is an elongated pavilion where the village council discusses community affairs.
New home construction, Pittsfield Township, Michigan Units under construction in Brighton, Victoria. Home construction or residential construction is the process of constructing a house, apartment building, or similar residential building [1] generally referred to as a 'home' when giving consideration to the people who might now or someday reside there.
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Structurally, no internal struts are required. The principals (wooden poles running radially out from the apex of the roof to the top of the rondavel's wall) are fully supported by the circular purlins: First, the principals do not sag in the middle, because sagging only puts the purlins near the middle of the principals under compression ...
The Nakayama Tile Kiln ruins (中山瓦窯跡), which has been newly designated, was discovered in 1972 and found to be a kiln that supplied tiles for the construction of the first Daigokuden-in Hall of Heijō-kyō Palace, making it an important archaeological site as the earliest operating tile kiln on Narayama. Ten kilns have been identified ...
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In Europe, thatch roofs on homes were once prevalent but the material fell out of favor as industrialization and improved transport increased the availability of other materials. Today, though, the practice is undergoing a revival. In the Netherlands, for instance, many new buildings have thatched roofs with special ridge tiles on top.