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unusual facts about The Builder



Bedford Park, London

The first architect for the estate was Edward William Godwin a leading member of the Aesthetic Movement, but his plans came in for some criticism in The Builder, the leading professional journal of its day, and Godwin and Carr parted company.

Ioane Shavteli

Shavteli's ode is, in fact, a eulogy to the two greatest monarchs of medieval Georgia, David "the Builder" (r. 1089-1125) and the poet's contemporary Queen Tamar (r. 1184-1213).


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The builder was Orenstein & Koppel of Berlin, one locomotive is preserved in working order at the Indian National Railway Museum, New Delhi.

Altötting

The heart of King Ludwig II of Bavaria, the builder of Neuschwanstein castle lies in this chapel, along with that of his grandfathers and father.

Barbarossa chandelier

The chandelier was a donation in honour of Mary, Mother of God, the patroness of Aachen Cathedral and simultaniously represented a tribute to the builder of the cathedral, Charlemagne.

Beriah Magoffin Monument

However, atypically of such monuments, Magoffin's portrait bust draped in a toga recalls Neoclassical conventions, as in Houdon's sculptural portrait of George Washington; this parallel with a heroic Roman was intended by the builder of the Beriah Magoffin Monument.

Chester Hills

Chester Hills was author of "The Builder's Guide", an architectural pattern book published in 1846, which, like those of Minard Lafever, influenced architecture in the United States.

Constance DeJong

In 2006 she wrote the text for SuperVision, a collaboration with The Builder's Association which premiered at the Walker Art Center in Minneapolis and at the Brooklyn Academy of Music (BAM) in New York.

Elias Walker Durnford

Major General Elias Walker Durnford R.E (28 July 1774 – 8 March 1850) was the builder of the Citadel, Quebec City.

Elmore Harris

This group was led by Elmore Harris, and included the well-known Casimir Gzowski Jr. (son of the builder of the Grand Trunk Railway and grandfather of broadcaster Peter Gzowski), Robert Kilgour of the Kilgour Brothers (a manufacturer of paper bags and paper boxes), John Drysdale Nasmith (a baker) and Samuel J. Moore of the business forms fame (a Sunday school leader at Dovercourt Road Baptist Church).

GeoEye-2

Lockheed Martin, the builder of IKONOS, has been selected as the builder of the satellite platform over General Dynamics the builder of GeoEye-1.

George Basevi

At first his duties for the Smith's Charity estate were utilitarian, but in 1832 the bankruptcy of some tenant nurserymen freed eight acres for development, and between 1833 and 1845 he worked with the builder James Bonnin to develop Pelham Crescent, Pelham Place, part of Pelham Street and Egerton Crescent.

George Franklin Pawling

George Franklin Pawling (April 16, 1879 - December 2, 1954), was president of the Amateur Athletic Union in the 1910s and the builder of the Philadelphia Arena in the 1920s.

Henry de Beaumont, 5th Earl of Warwick

He had a brief marriage to Margaret, daughter and co-heiress of Henry D'Oyly, Baron Hocknorton and Lord of the Manor of Lidney; the latter was a great-nephew of Robert D'Oyly, the builder of Oxford Castle.

Henry Edward Burstall

Born at Domaine Cataraqui, Quebec City, Quebec, the son of the wealthy merchant John B. Burstall (1832–1896) and Fanny Bell Forsyth, daughter of James Bell Forsyth, the builder of Domaine Cataraqui, in 1831.

Holdworth

Another eminent Hallamshire family with connections to Holdworth were the Steads, Thomas Stead, the builder of Hillsborough House, held an estate of over 2,000 acres on his death in 1793, including land at Holdworth.

Humphrey Sturt

Diana Napier, his mother, was the great great granddaughter of Sir Nathaniel Napier the builder of Crichell House, and it was through her that the house passed to the Sturts.

James Goyen

The builder, James Goyen, (10 May 1905 to 3 April 1984) constructed many houses and other buildings in the St George District, south of the Cooks River, New South Wales, Australia.

Junk Raiders

The president of OpenLuna, an organization that seeks to get folks on the moon, he is also the builder behind "Beer-bot", a beverage-dispensing robot that keeps beer out of children's hands.

Keith Chapman

Bob the Builder was produced at Manchester's HOT Animation Studio, with Curtis Jobling's unmistakable character and world designs helping propel the character, and the show, onto a global audience.

Long Grass Plantation

The current structure is dominated by the additions made in the early to mid-19th century by the builder-architect Jacob W. Holt of Warrenton, North Carolina.

Palladium at St. Petersburg College

The builder was the George A. Fuller Construction Company of New York City, then one of the nation's leading builders.

Roger Sonnabend

It became entangled in extensive litigation between the builder/owner, the J. Irwin Miller family, and HCA.

Savoia Castle

The founder, and maybe the builder too, was probably Domaslav (Domaslaus de Squorz) around 1279, an important courtier and landed official, the butler of Queen Kunigunda of Slavonia(1262) and her food taster (1263–1269, 1279), Lord High Treasurer (1267–1278) and one of the ten Burgraves of Prague Castle.

Schunck's Kledingindustrie Bonaire

In 1948, Pierre Schunck (1906-1993), stemming from a family of weavers and son of the builder of the famous Glaspaleis in Heerlen, the Netherlands (see Schunck), arrived in Bonaire to set up a clothing industry (Kledingindustrie).

Shoreham, New York

The builder, Long Island Lighting Company (LILCO), was partially reimbursed for money spent on construction.

Södertelje Verkstäder

In 1901 the builder of electric cars Harald Håkansson managed to agree a contract so that Södertelje Verkstäder got access to experience, blueprints and engines from Kühlstein, NAG and Protos that they sold under the name "Helios".

Tallkrogen

About 90% of the construction costs, at the time roughly SEK 10,000, could be financed by loans from the city, while the rest could be covered by the builder's own work.

Wheatley, Ontario

Hike Metal Products, a shipbuilding/refitting/fabricating company based at the harbour, is the builder of the Maid of the Mist, the vessel used at Niagara Falls for the tours under the great Canadian waterfall.

Zach Thomas

Thomas' father is the builder and proprietor of the second largest cross in the Western Hemisphere, located in Groom, Texas.