roof monitor
A roof monitor is a rooftop structure that provides smoke extraction, ventilation, and natural lighting. It is installed across part of the ridge of a gabled house.
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Nanpo Tometaro Shoten/Windows of the Smokehouse
Noriaki Nanpo’s Smokery in Yoichi, Hokkaido Prefecture. The facility mainly smokes shrimp, Indian salmon, scallops, and herring. There are generally three types of smoking techniques with different te…
03 Feb 2021
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Uzen Silk Scouring/Window for Steam Discharge
A silk scouring plant founded in 1906 in Tsuruoka City, Yamagata Prefecture. Silk scouring is achieved by soaking the raw silk in boiling water infused with chemicals to remove impurities such as prot…
08 Sep 2020
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Interview with Tom Emerson, 6a architects
Based in London, 6a architects is an acclaimed architectural office best known for its numerous cultural and educational projects including the Fashion Gallery of the Victoria & Albert Museum or C…
22 Apr 2019
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Vol. 0: Windows from the Perspective of Contrastive Etymology
Linguist Yasunari Ueda looks into the origins of words that mean “window” from around the world to explore the process through which the concepts of the word have expanded over the ages. We will start…
28 Mar 2018