Dry-stone random rubble walls, for which rough stones are piled up without mortar, are the most basic form.
Eroding plaques are set into the "distinctive rubble walls" surrounding the cemetery, and one of the first orders of business at the meeting was how to raise some funds, in these desperate times, to restore the plaques and keep the walls from crumbling and the owners from being sued.
He worked up the designs for the house on its new site, on former Tyntesfield estate land, with Bath-based architect Stephen Brooks, who has updated the scheme to fit with contemporary building regulations – inserting a steel frame and secreting swathes of insulation behind the rugged rubble walls.
The Adam solution of a castellated exterior with a neo-classical interior was abandoned and in Baronial revival houses this change was extended to create a synthesised Victorian style that combined elements of the Renaissance, such as plastered or rubble walls, unpainted stone fireplaces and pitch pine timberwork, with seventeenth-century style plaster ceilings.
The new garage won't have pulsing screens or high-tech metal and glass, as do the Fox & Fowle-designed Conde Nast and Reuters Buildings in Times Square -- only a plain brick and rubble stone wall, in keeping with the super-quiet character of this low-profile co-op.
The double leaf rubble stone wall consisted of 550 mm outer leaf, 32 mm air cavity, 100 mm mineral wool insulation/wooden framework, 150 mm inner leaf.
The rubble stone walls could be from the 1830s — or from the 1930s.
Yesterday his house was a pile of rubble: collapsed walls and the occasional piece of furniture exposed to the sky.
In 1971 Apollo 15 astronauts explored the sinuous Hadley Rille and found a V-shaped valley filled with rubble from walls that appeared to contain exposed rock layers laid down by successive lava flows.
