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The original owner, John Sowden, was a painter and photographer who hired his friend, Lloyd Wright (eldest son of Frank Lloyd Wright), to build his home on Franklin Ave in Los Feliz. The house is built using concrete textile blocks and Mayan themes, with decorative block-work along some of the interior walls.
[3] The textile-block houses were named for their richly textured brocade-like concrete walls. [4] The style was an experiment by Wright in modular housing; [5] he sought to develop an inexpensive and simple method of construction that would enable ordinary people to build their own homes with stacked blocks. [5]
A pallet of "8-inch" concrete blocks An interior wall of painted concrete blocks Concrete masonry blocks A building constructed with concrete masonry blocks. A concrete block, also known as a cinder block in North American English, breeze block in British English, concrete masonry unit (CMU), or by various other terms, is a standard-size rectangular block used in building construction.
The demolition and rebuilding of more than 500 homes built with collapse-risk concrete in Aberdeen has been recommended. Panels of the lightweight, building material reinforced autoclaved aerated ...
The exterior was to be painted Masonite with horizontal redwood battens attached, though the house could also be built of stone or concrete block, or partially faced with stone. [3] Prefab #1 Houses: Eugene Van Tamelen House — Madison, Wisconsin (1956) Arnold Jackson House "Skyview" — moved from Madison (built 1957) to Beaver Dam, Wisconsin ...
The term "mica scandal" arose because the expert committee had observed that defective concrete blocks within County Donegal contained excessive quantities of the mineral mica liberated within the binder. Within County Mayo the expert committee concluded that the defective blocks were caused by internal sulphate attack sourced from framboidal ...
No-fines houses were built with a ten-inch (254mm) concrete shell cast in situ. [1] The concrete for the entire outer structure was cast in one operation using reusable formwork. The ground floor was either concrete or traditional timber joists and floorboards; the first floor was made with traditional timber joists and floorboards.
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