U Nu is a man of infinite modesty and quietness; he likes to drive out, on afternoons when he can get free, to a “meditation house” built on stilts, a tall man’s height from the ground.
OUR FAR-FLUNG CORRESPONDENTS piece about Sarawak, the British colony in Borneo. History of the Brook family who has had complete autocratic rule over Sarawak for almost 100 years. Many people had ...
And a new house on stilts, Stewart Avenue Residence, was born. ‘After [our client] went through Hurricane Irma in 2017, he knew it was time to build something new,’ the architects recall. ‘His ...
His village's Rong took five years to complete. The houses were built on stilts for several reasons, Pairaudeau told Insider. In addition to protection against flooding, stilts keep the building ...