N orth Gujarat has magnificent monuments, most of them built in the 11 th and 12 th century when Gujarat was ruled by the ...

It would be too easy and too inaccurate to write these places off as strange anomalies — one-off quirks in a city filled with ...

Delving into the history of such architectural concepts, I discovered that about 50 years prior to the construction of the ...

A walk through the alleys of Stone Town reveals more than just coral-stone buildings—it offers a glimpse into centuries of ...

Marble House was Alva Vanderbilt's 39th birthday present. She later became a leader in the women's suffrage movement.

They had to be located in a very remote part of China and then brought to the coast, where they were worked at a city that has a very large stone industry—mostly architectural stone but also some ...

Stone carving has been used for millennia to create sculptures, reliefs, statues, architectural elements, and decorative objects. Stone carving is the process of shaping stone into artistic or ...

In Samdrup Jongkhar’s Lauri Gewog, two artisans are breathing life into the fading tradition of stone carving. They have held onto this tradition for years, carrying forward their forefathers’ legacy ...