When Tomiko Takeuchi walked by Gresham’s Japanese Garden, nestled in Main City Park, 12 years ago with her gardener, Jim Card, he was the first to say it was “a mess.” He was also the first to say, ...
CC0 Usage Conditions ApplyClick for more information. Three plots of land were joined together to create a one-half acre Japanese garden alongside an 1892 brick schoolhouse that had been renovated and ...
The restoration took nearly four years to complete and was carried out by Kojima Construction Co., Ltd., under the supervision of the Association for the Preservation of Cultural Heritage Structures ...
The five-tiered wooden pagoda at the Japanese Tea Garden in San Francisco’s Golden Gate Park. (L Hoffheins/Flickr/CC BY-NC 2.0) The pagoda was never meant to fare outdoors. Unlike most pagoda ...
From the Japanese cypress to the ponderosa pine, wood has been used in construction for millennia. Though materials like steel and concrete have largely taken over large building construction, wood is ...