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 ...

Natural stone is an ancient material – people have used it to build their homes for centuries. Over all those years, master craftsmen have discovered how to maximize natural stone’s full potential for ...

The building in question was designed by local architect Amin Taha. It is known as 15 Clerkenwell Close and the controversy may surprise you, because in a sea of brick Victorian dwellings, the ...

From engineered wood to high-performance glass, today’s best building materials are chosen for durability, efficiency, and ...

Structural engineer Webb Yates has completed its first structural stone building for a commercial developer. Thomas Lane reports on the firm's 20-year mission to establish stone as a sustainable alter ...

Historical building methodsEarly Swiss mountain huts used locally available materials by necessity. Stone from nearby quarries provided walls with thermal mass to moderate temperature swings. Timber ...

The country between Madison and Janesville, Wisconsin, is the old bed of an ancient glacier-drift. Vast, busy gravel-pits abound there, exposing heaps of yellow aggregate, once, and everywhere else, ...