The Dakota: A History of the World's Best-Known Apartment Building Format:Hardcover Ideal for the DIYer professional

Ideal for the DIYer professional designer and builder alike this comprehensive book on cordwood construction covers: Wood species selection log-end length and seasoning New mortar options such as cement lime putty and cob mortar Wall cavity insulation options Budgeting and estimating for your cordwood construction Highly illustrated step-by-step cordwood masonry construction methods and techniques Window and door frame installation Painting and chinking finishing and plastering your cordwood construction Special designs and decorative features Code references code compliance building science and best practices for cordwood masonry construction methods Troubleshooting and maintenance

The houses featured including a centuries-old home for a president as well as recently built residences present a stylish traditional aesthetic hallmarks of which include warm wood-paneled libraries plaster walls hung with paintings of horse riding scenes classical motifs lovingly wrought architectural detail screened porches large windows that frame inspiring vistas of the country landscape—all those things that say home to the country and suburban gentleman and gentlewoman

In a career that includes designing more than five hundred homes he led architects builders and homeowners to embrace the finest elements of Louisiana's architectural past

In this lavishly produced volume authors Virginia and Lee McAlester explore outstanding landmark houses that exemplify America's major architectural and interior design styles from Colonial times to the mid-twentieth century

ISBN-13: 978-0486451046

The Dakota: A History of the World's Best-Known Apartment Building Format:Hardcover Ideal for the DIYer professionalThe Dakota is arguably the best known residential address in the world home to dozens of New York City's most famous artists performers and successful executives. The rare sale of an apartment there usually at jaw dropping prices is newsworthy as is the financial and architectural health of the building itself a landmark in every sense of the word. The first true luxury apartment house built in New York City more than 130 years ago the Dakota is still