Brick and stone masonry have served as reliable and valuable elements of commercial building projects for centuries, gracing urban and rural landscapes since time immemorial. Building Teams have ...

The recent appointment of Roger Scruton as chair of the Building Beautiful Commission has reopened the argument about the use of traditional styles and materials within architecture. With a call to ...

Harnessing stone as a structural material can make architecture more enjoyable to both build and inhabit argues Tristram Carfrae, an Arup engineer working on the Sagrada Familia, in this Stone Age 2.0 ...

There are many reasons to start building a beautiful inexpensive stone house, but we’ll list seven here. To build a stone house from scratch is to create a sustainable home that can last for centuries ...

HOUSTON, February 25, 2025--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Westlake Royal Building Products ™ ("Westlake Royal"), a Westlake company (NYSE: WLK), is expanding its Versetta Stone ® siding offerings with the addition ...

On a rocky hillside in an agricultural village halfway between Rome and Naples, an ancient form of building is being revived. Dry stone masonry—a technique dating back thousands of years—is being used ...

While masonry is not plastic, steel, glass, wood, titanium or any other fancy metal on the market, it is just about everything else that has been used as building materials through the centuries.

Seth Thomas, an instructor at the Dry Stone Conservancy, shapes limestone during a workshop in Jessamine County on Nov. 23, 2024. Beth Musgrave [email protected] Don Hopper pivoted over the ...