When one hears the term masonry architecture, digital fabrication and automated construction processes are probably not the first ideas to come to mind. By its very nature, the architecture produced ...

Stone has been a time-honored building material in Santa Barbara since the earliest days of the city. Wood was never in great supply. Although the region was dotted with thousands of oak trees, their ...

Canada was not yet a country when, in 1860, stone carvers, stone masons, carpenters and other tradesmen flocked to Ottawa to begin a nation-defining building project. The construction site — on what ...

In plan the building is a 60 x 60m trapezoid; the structure is a steel frame with concrete-encased columns at the perimeter and perforated cell beams supporting floors of profiled steel decks with ...