The great timber company?" Her eyes were forest pools.
The most important woods are fir, pine, and rosewood, which are floated downstream in the form of big rafts to Fuzhou, a great timber emporium.
With Moorish minarets meeting great timber floors, the redesign has seamlessly blended the real and surreal, the Danish and the Middle Eastern.
An enormous barricade leans against a wall, a great timber cliff overhung with a teetering arrangement of ropes, bales and festoons of stuff.
"With Mackintosh, you expect it to be amazing craftsmanship," says Page. "We had always assumed, for example, that the great timber columns holding up the mezzanine, which really defined the room, were carved from single pieces of oak.
The island was completely forested in the 15th century, except for small agricultural clearings, but European settlers cut down the great timber trees for building purposes and cleared the plains, savannas, and mountain slopes for cultivation.
Their last few years of findings, combined with the search giant's technology, allows surfers to visit the Neolithic village of Durrington Walls, to scout around prehistoric houses, to see reconstructions of Bluestonehenge at the end of the Stonehenge Avenue and to explore the great timber monument called the Southern Circle.
The five functions have been separated into a cluster of individual buildings, echoing the five towers of Angkor Wat, while their structures are formed from great timber columns that split and entwine, like the writhing roots that enlace the ancient stone temples.
The palaces constructed for the nobility centred on great timber halls, while manor houses began to appear in rural areas.
After the fire exposed timber layer is completely charred and the char-layer has fallen off, the thin vertical timber members are exposed to fire on 3 sides, leading to very irregular residual cross-sections with charring depths much greater than for heavy timber structures.
