Whether installing new or looking to refresh an existing structure, understand the basic rules and building blocks of your ...

My introduction to building a stone wall, like beginnings in so many homesteading skills, came unexpectedly, urgently, and at the wrong time. It was a rare clear morning during a rainy spring in ...

Dry stone walls are resource efficient as they use locally sourced materials, such as concrete slabs that are low in embodied energy. ETH Zurich researchers deployed an autonomous excavator, called ...

A dry stone wall is a purposeful pile of rocks, held in place by friction and gravity rather than mortar. It’s one of the oldest building methods known to mankind, used over millennia to ...

A robotic excavator could build a dry stone wall to act as a blast shield around a launch pad on the moon, a new study suggests.

The building features a somber facade without ornamentation and a colossal height - at the time - of 16 floors. It is considered the first skyscraper built in structural masonry, with ceramic ...

In Europe they’re a quaintly indelible part of the landscape. In the U.K alone, an estimated 74,000 miles of stone walls, built without mortar or rebar, are etched through the landscape.

Many of New England’s stone walls were initially constructed to deal with a problem: An excess of pesky stones in the soil. ... “These folks would build [stone] walls to their specification.