News

Scientific American is part of Springer Nature, which owns or has commercial relations with thousands of scientific publications (many of them can be found at www ...
Outside the First Presbyterian Church on the corner of Pennsylvania and Pacific avenues, Benjamin Rojas, 32, described the pride he took in demolishing this 19th-century building. As lead foreman for ...
You don’t have to dig deep to spot sandstone, one of civilisation’s oldest building materials. The sturdy, fine-grained rock is abundant in built and natural environments, from Melbourne’s ...
"It was a very popular building material because of its strength and beauty," explained Donald Colquhoun, one of the Medina Sandstone Society trustees. "At one time there were over 30 quarries ...
The Seneca Sandstone Company (1866-1876 ... We so rarely ever make the connection between our building materials and the places where we live and work. Yet every brick, sheetrock, splotch of ...
Granite St., are made of gray Montana sandstone ... Canadian material is famous. Wherever it is from, this dolomite adds a unique style to what was once a high-class apartment building.