As architects and engineers embrace more environmentally friendly building design and construction, advocates of sustainable development are rediscovering natural stone. After years of negative press, ...

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 ...

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 ...

Before you start building a stone retaining wall, it's important to assess your garden's landscape and determine where the ...

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, ...

Bergen-based architects Fortunen AS worked with Østengen & Bergo to install a compact service building at the base of the beautiful Skjervet waterfall in Granvin, Norway, using locally-sourced ...