Cobblestones still cover about 100 blocks of Seattle's hilly streets. Their endurance tells us a story of the city's growth.

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The City of Cape Town's upgrades to Muizenberg’s beachfront infrastructure are well underway - with the old seawall being ...

Newly completed rail hubs by the firm include Crows Nest Station in suburban Sydney and a series of open-air platforms in ...

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 St Paul’s ...

Photo: Nicholas Caldwell. Its abundance works in his favour. Butterworth sources excess sandstone and broken blocks from job sites and quarries that are otherwise destined for landfill.

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NSW government puts hundreds of sandstone bollards on Urunga foreshore to protect critically endangered beach stone-curlew Never mind the bollards: Hundreds of sandstone blocks have been left on a ...

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Al Naslaa is a rock formation in Saudi Arabia's northwestern desert consisting of two huge, symmetrical stone blocks that are separated by a mysterious gap and sit on small pedestals.