When one hears the term masonry architecture, digital fabrication and automated construction processes are probably not the first ideas to come to mind. By its very nature, the architecture produced ...

Stone, as a building material, as human hands begin upon it – stonecraft – becomes a shapely block. The block is necessarily true to square and level, so that one block may securely rest upon another ...

A team of stonemasons is hard at work restoring Canterbury's magnificent cathedral, employing techniques that have been used since the dawn of civilisation. They spoke to Tessa Waugh; pictures by ...

The built environment must hark back to its low-carbon past and embrace stone as a structural material if it is to effectively tackle its environmental footprint, writes Steve Webb as part of our ...

In plan the building is a 60 x 60m trapezoid; the structure is a steel frame with concrete-encased columns at the perimeter and perforated cell beams supporting floors of profiled steel decks with ...

THE arts of stone-cutting and masonry, and their applications in engineering and architectural practice in the United States, are briefly treated in this book, with special reference to the making of ...

Seth Thomas, an instructor at the Dry Stone Conservancy, shapes limestone during a workshop in Jessamine County on Nov. 23, 2024. Beth Musgrave bmusgrave@herald-leader.com Don Hopper pivoted over the ...

The Architects’ Alphabet is a 26-part series describing design elements featured in Gregory J. Scott’s upcoming book, “Urban Legend, The Life & Legacy of C. Emlen Urban,” Lancaster’s most renowned ...

However, direct field observation continues to show that not all architectural elements within the plateau fit comfortably within these established models. The Mortuary Temple of Khafre, located on ...