Sandstone building

Rajasthan is synonymous with sandstone as a building material but sadly, over the last few decades, this material has been reduced to a 'cladding 'medium and its potential as a robust and sustainable structural element has not been explored. The house in Jaipur presented us with an opportunity to explore and evolve a method of building that has been prevalent in traditional buildings for centuries. We laid out a simple brief: no material other than stone should be used for construction.

Theatre of Sabratha, Libya

The Golden city, Jaisalmer Rajasthan

Blocks of red sandstone cover the volumes of a new design museum by Álvaro Siza and Carlos Castanheira on the Chinese Academy of Art campus in Hangzhou.

The sandstone building housing the Treasury Hotel was touted as “the most splendid public edifice in the Australian colony” when it was built in 1886.

Al-Khazneh ("The Treasury") is one of the most elaborate temples in Petra, a city of the Nabatean Kingdom inhabited by the Arabs in ancient times. As with most of the other buildings in this ancient town, including the Monastery (Arabic: Ad Deir), this structure was carved out of a sandstone rock face.The structure is believed to have been the mausoleum of the Nabatean King Aretas IV in the 1st century AD. Jordan.

Sydenhurst is a luxury manor house built near Godalming. The build objective was to create a building with the appearance of a 200-year-old manor house -…

Tatooine

Ara on Instagram: "I made a mediterrean sandstone build with @waspycraft1 @airtugmc with slight pops of cyan! This is a super quick build and survival friendly for those that want to build it :) -- Follow for more! @buildsbyara_ -- Shaders: BSL -- #minecraft #mcpe #minecraftart #minecraftbuild #mcbuilds #minecraftbuilding #minecraftjava #minecraftarchitecture #minecraftonly #minecraftbuilds #minecraftideas #minecrafthouse #minecraftinspiration #minecrafthouses #minecraftcreations…

Been making the elevation of the building of the golden yellow stone .. Nubian Sandstone natural stone extracted from the ground in a traditional way and keep track of the ancient Nubian civilization is the oldest civilization of the Pharaohs

Sandstone was utilized throughout the project by Malik Architecture for both its decorative splendour in coating the residence and for the structural bones, which took advantage of its load bearing characteristics to great effect. Designed by: Malik Architecture Photographed by: Bharath Ramamrutham

Rajasthan is synonymous with sandstone as a building material but sadly, over the last few decades, this material has been reduced to a 'cladding 'medium and its potential as a robust and sustainable structural element has not been explored. The house in Jaipur presented us with an opportunity to explore and evolve a method of building that has been prevalent in traditional buildings for centuries. We laid out a simple brief: no material other than stone should be used for construction.

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Shah Jahan lived the longest in Agra and he extensively rebuilt the citadel, tearing down most of Akbar’s sandstone buildings to erect his own marble palaces. The Shah Burj from the 17th century is the largest bastion of the Agra Fort on the riverside, facing the East. It was originally built of red sandstone by Akbar who used it for jharokha darshan, the routine contact that he kept with the people through this window. It was also a place for worshipping the sun at sunrise. In a 1620…

álvaro siza has collaborated with carlos castanheira on the design of a major exhibition space in hangzhou, the capital of china’s zhejiang province.

Sandstone

Regional Architecture Combines the Revival of Tradition…