If you hear the pitch for building with stone, it really is a no-brainer. The material is solid, consistent, sustainable and abundant. It is not a marketing spiel either; the numbers back it up.

Stone bricks form the multi-textural walls of this family home extension in London's Highbury area, designed by DGN Studio in collaboration with creative director Sarah Izod. Titled Stone and Steel ...

Editor’s note: This story is an update of one that ran in 2009. Read the original here. One of mankind’s oldest building materials is brick. Before they shaped stone with tools, our ancestors dried ...

Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... Changing aesthetic preferences, cost considerations, and technological advancements in construction materials make brick facades less popular. Alternatives ...

For more than a century, building archaeologists have believed that the art of brick building in Denmark was imported directly from Lombardy in northern Italy in the mid-12th century. But a new study ...

In the image below, a material is created and an image file selected for it. There is nothing wrong with this early on, while material selection is still fluid. However, at some point the materials ...