Word: redwooded
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...Francisco architect, Warnecke grew up in the informal redwood tradition of Bernard Maybeck, struck out on his own in 1950 after his father's firm grew too cramped. He won his first national acclaim with a series of Bay Area schools. In 1956 he struck into the international field, won a State Department commission to build the Thailand embassy. His "floating pagoda" design (provided that Congress authorizes funds) will match the mood of Bangkok's temples as it rises airily on slender white stilts...
...times the actors performed with as much expression and emotion as a forest of fine redwood trees. Tragic scenes were rushed into without preparation and with little sense of pace...
...forceful, two-story post-and-beam structure, with walls of diagonal redwood siding, brings space and plastic interest to what would otherwise be that modern cliche, the box house. The J. H. Pomeroy Co. is selling the house at its Tahoe Keys development at Lake Tahoe, Calif., for approximately $45,000 with...
...prototype for a development, Architect Thomas C. Lehrecke designed a house for his own family at Tappan, N.Y., concentrating on combining flexibility with low cost ($28,000). The exterior is of redwood, Douglas fir and concrete block, accented with horizontal white panels...
Untamed & Drenched. The first Californians. the Spanish, called it El Sur Grande, the Big South - a wild and wonderful coastline that begins 150 miles south of San Francisco where the Santa Lucia mountains plunge vertiginously into the foam-fringed Pacific, then soars and tumbles along 72 miles of redwood-studded promontories, bare earth cliffs and sandy beaches to San Luis Obispo. 200 miles north of Los Angeles. And while most of the California coast was sprouting pink motels, filling stations, and the cantilevered eyries of the rich, this stretch of Monterey County kept its rugged beauty...