Bold and Daring: The Lone Oak

2012-07-02
by esba
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The Lone Oak building, five miles west of Lincoln on US Highway 6, built in 1944 and occupied in 1945, was constructed with straw bale technology. The two-story building in Lincoln appeared to be the embodiment of modernity using large, fixed, plate glass windows and modernistic design. The selection of the use of walls built of bales of hay was influenced by wartime wood and steel shortages.

Author: MurphyDavid

Link: https://history.nebraska.gov/sites/history.nebraska.gov/files/doc/publications/NH2006BoldLoneOak.pdf

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The European Straw Building Association is an independent European association, devoid of any profit making motive. The object of the Association is to promote and develop the use of straw, as a sustainable way of building in all the senses of the term “sustainable”: renewable, ecological, healthy, energy and climate efficient, social and economic.
The Association is a federation composed of organisations and people particularly concerned with the use of straw in buildings.

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