Word: tiling
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...Ming emperors, the center of the world between heaven and earth began in the Hall of Supreme Harmony within the red gates of the Forbidden City. Rising from a massive deep-red pedestal, the red pillars and two yellow tile roofs spread forth in gigantic yet perfect proportions. In the morning, snow falls across the Imperial Palace grounds. It is into this setting that Richard Nixon and a mob of television and still cameramen walk, making small talk and gawking. "The snow has whitewashed the world," says Yeh Chien-ying, deputy chairman of the military affairs commission of the Chinese...
First, there is lots of work involved in sawing down trees large enough to be used for lumber, but even after they are down, the stumps are still in the field and need to be bulldozed out. The land might need drainage ditching with plastic pipe or clay tile buried in the ground before it would be very productive...
American sector, the village is completely surrounded by East Germany. But for that, it might be just another pleasant suburb. Big pines and oaks line the cobblestoned streets. The tile-roofed, many-gabled single-family houses have roughcast beige exteriors, carefully tended gardens and little fences around every yard. But Steinstucken is surrounded by armament-bristling concrete towers that allow East German "Vopos" to peer into bedroom windows...
...separate any Bauhaus exhibit into class divisions is misleading since a primary doctrine was to unite the crafts with the fine arts and to fuse these two into a third and ultimate structure-the building. Thus resulted buildings like Harvard's Harkness Commons with a mural of colored tile by Herbert Bayer, a brick relief by Josef Albers, the textiles by his wife Anni Albers, and the architecture by Gropius...
...tying them together. Pattern delighted him. The way he selected a flower as a motif and set his figures against a whole screen of them, the petals interlocking with reverse shapes of gold leaf, was a master stroke of decorative invention that seems both to look back to Moorish tile work and predict art nouveau...