a firehouse. build fire. 'ruperupe' can be translated asflourishing or growing ...

Paul Gauguin, (French, 1848 - 1903)

"RUPERUPE" 1899

Pushkin Museum of Fine Arts



'Tiare Ruperupe' is a Cook Islands Maori term; 'tiare' meaning flower and 'ruperupe' can be translated as<br />. flourishing or growing ...

The cherry-red spiral staircase was initially the only way to get upstairs in the former firehouse. Mr. Cooper preserved it, but added another staircase.Credit...Maansi Srivastava/The New York Times

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A living room bookcase is filled with antique books, including some that belonged to Mr. Cooper’s mother, his father and his Vanderbilt ancestors.Credit...Maansi Srivastava/The New York Times

Mr. Cooper worked with an architect to subdivide the four-story, warehouselike space into rooms. Both the spiral staircase and the fireman’s pole were preserved. But now, a wide staircase zigzags upstairs. The wall next to the main staircase serves as a gallery of his mother’s paintings, as well as portraits of her signed by well-

In the basement of the firehouse, Mr. Cooper is working his way through the last 70 or so boxes of his mother’s belongings. Credit...

Maansi Srivastava/The New York Timesknown photographers.

Vitra Fire Station, Weil Am Rein, Germany, 1994
One of Hadid's enduring inspirations has been the early 20th century Suprematist art of Kazimir Malevich and El Lissitzky, with its rejection of single-point perspective, airborne shards and multiple vanishing points, which she managed to translate into genuine architectural forms. You can find their influence — and maybe also a nod to the massive steel plate sculpture of Richard Serra — in the thrusting, angular planes of her first completed building, a firehouse on the manufacturing campus of Vitra, a furniture company known for commissioning buildings by significant architects like Hadid, Frank Gehry and Tadao Ando.

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Contents

• 1English
  • 1.1Etymology 1
    • 1.1.1Noun
  • 1.2Etymology 2
    • 1.2.1Noun
      • 1.2.1.1Derived terms
      • 1.2.1.2Translations
  • 1.3Anagrams

English[edit]

Etymology 1[edit]

From Middle English firhous, fyrehous, from Old English fȳrhūs (“a fire-house, a room with a fire; furnace”), equivalent to fire +‎ house. Compare Icelandic eldhús (“kitchen”).

Noun[edit]

firehouse (plural firehouses)

1. (dialectal) A house containing a fire to heat it; a dwelling-house, as opposed to a barn, a stable, or other outhouse.

Etymology 2[edit]

From fire +‎ house.

Noun[edit]

firehouse (plural firehouses)

1. (US, firefighting) A fire station

Derived terms[edit]

• firehouse caucus