Road Grip: Vietnam’s Golden Bridge Is One Handy Span
You're in good hands when you walk the recently opened Golden Bridge in the Ba Na Hills – two humongous hands carved from stone, to be exact. Some say driving in Vietnam is a gripping ...
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Sticks & Stones: Land Artist Shapes Natural Objects into Organic Architecture
Color, shape, texture and structure form the basis for these cairns, mandalas, spiral and hexagons, set against scenic backdrops where the materials were found. In a tradition often ...
Prints in Time: Ancient Pet Animals Accidentally Immortalized in Artifacts
When we think of ancient persons carefully laying the foundations of stone monuments, or hard at work writing out historical tomes, it's a bit hard to imagine them brushing away an interrupting ...
Stoned in Scotland: Modern Home Shrouded in 17th Century Ruins
Without touching a single stone in the ruins of a 17th century farmhouse in Scotland, two architects managed to incorporate it exactly as it is into a modern, ultra-efficient, solar-powered ...
Adaptive Architecture: Curved House Wraps Old Well, Reuses Stone Cistern
A contemporary home in Spain was designed to wrap a surface well and sits on the associated subterranean cistern, creatively converting it into the solid foundation and habitable basement of ...
Inflatable Interventions: Soft Spikes Bring Roofless Ruins Back to Life
A series of architectural installations in Scotland contrast sharply with the centuries-old stone architecture and natural landscapes, featuring spiky white inflatables filling in aged cracks and ...
Druid Awakening: A Dozen Hard Rockin’ Modern Stonehenges
These 12 modern homages to Stonehenge would likely bemuse, befuddle and bewilder those who constructed the original prehistoric standing stone circle. Much like the original Stonehenge ...
Chinsekikan: Japanese Museum of Found Stones that Look Like Human Faces
An unusual collection of found-object art in Chichibu, Japan is home to nearly 2000 rocks that naturally feature what appear to be facial expressions. A jinmenseki (or: rock with ...
Armadillo Vault: Delicate Stone Canopy Held Together by Compression
Not a drop of glue or any other adhesive holds together the delicate, 2-inch-thick limestone tiles that make up this airy canopy, which billows into the vaulted ceilings of the Arsenale di ...
Architectural Geodes: Subtractive Sculptor Carves Ornate Spaces
Combining the raw exterior remnants of source stones with the finely-tuned architectural details of sacred spaces, these marvelous fossil-like miniatures combine compelling elements of organic ...
