Returning to my room at night, I could look out on the vast expanse of marble and masonry and watch what seemed like the entire city, chatting well into the night; but I encountered no other guests, aside from a group of bicyclists who arrived one morning and left the next.
Figure 11 highlights the mechanical risk for marble, stone and masonry due to future change in the frequency of salt crystallization cycles per year.
The Greeks not only gilded wood, masonry, and marble sculpture but also fire-gilded metal by applying a gold amalgam to it and driving off the mercury with heat, leaving a coating of gold on the metal surface.
For a more modern look, use expensive marble found in tiles or masonry.
Results show that mortar mixes with 20% substitution of river sand by marble powder can be used for masonry and rendering purposes.
The investigation was carried out in laboratory by considering specimens, which were made of a plaster layer over a support of marble, brick, or tuff to simulate masonry structures.
Monuments may be made from a number of materials, including granite, marble or other types of stone masonry.
"But the spirit is still here, because they have reached eternity .Echoing down a winding stairwell, a scraping of masonry and clink of chisel on marble signal a remarkable monument rising.
Although SoHo is known for its cast iron, builders on White Street used masonry more often than not — like the marble front of No. 40, which is Italianate in style with an unusual frieze of three swags at the top, surmounted by the simple carved year, "1866".
Sky-lighted pedestrian corridors, shortcuts, they wormed through whole blocks of masonry buildings and looked immaculate -- all glass, marble and shiny steel, with barrel-vaulted ceilings, domed aeries and soaring atriums, knitted seamlessly into the surrounding streetscape.
