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Frederick Hundertwasser was an Austrian born artist and architect who came and settled in New Zealand's Bay of Islands. He liked it so much that he bought property - Kaurinuie where he continued to develop his personal artistic skills drawings, doing paintings and designing buildings which he used to build unique complexes with uneven floors, wavey walls that included colourful bottles that could withstand harsh temperature variations (seasonal differences), yet add its own magic when lit up by natural sunlight or artificial light. The Hundertwasser toilets were his first southern ...

California's 1849 gold rush triggered creation of the "instant city" of San Francisco as a base to exploit the rich natural resources of the American West. City of Wood examines how capitalists and workers logged the state's vast redwood forests to create the financial capital and construction materials needed to build the regional metropolis of San Francisco. Architectural historian James Michael Buckley investigates the remote forest and its urban core as two poles of a regional "city."