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The Potlach Club on the island of Eleuthera, where movie stars lounged and Paul McCartney honeymooned, was in ruins for decades before reopening last year.
How do you create something dynamic while honoring the past?” That was the question posed by Mikkel Beedholm of KHR ...
Claudio’s brings its East End heritage to the Bahamas with a new nautical-inspired restaurant at Atlantis Paradise Island.
And then, rising up another hill, we saw it, almost appearing out of nowhere: An expansive piece of property with swaying palm trees, 200 sweet-smelling garden beds, and thatched-roofed cottages ...
The Farm This brand-new Bahamas hotel is on a fully operational Eleuthera Island farm. The hotel runs completely on solar power and nearly everything you eat on The Farm comes from the land you’re ...
The oldest building in Weston-super-Mare has become an even more prominent seafront landmark thanks to the installation of a new thatched roof. The new feature has been carefully constructed ...
In a hall in Portnoo students at the Donegal Thatching School clamber over practice roofs under the watchful eye of Brian Lafferty, one of Ireland's last master thatchers. "That's it, start at the ...
A dramatic picture shows the devastating aftermath of a large house fire involving thatched roofs in North Devon last week. A major response from Devon and Somerset Fire Service was called to a ...
Madurai: Madurai Corporation has installed palmyra-thatched roofs at traffic signals to provide relief from the scorching heat. The first structures were set up at Kalavasal Bypass signal two days ...
Supplies of straw for thatched roofs are low due to three poor harvests, says a thatcher A thatcher with a three-year waiting list for his services said a shortage of straw had caused problems for ...
So there is a real shortage of the material." Not all thatched properties use straw, which typically need replacing every 25 years, with some homeowners in the East of England using water reed.
Picturesque thatched roofs were once a common part of the cultural landscape of Slovakia. Just as the craftsmen and people who made and maintained them have disappeared, so too have the houses with ...