Among them are grooved stone blocks, curved corners and latticework balconies.
One can almost hear the buildings' giant stone blocks bending to his artistic will.
Drum, in architecture, any of the cylindrical stone blocks composing a column that is not a monolith.
The church was built in 1924, fashioned of rough stone blocks and shaped like an austere Norman castle.
At one site, the sonar detected more than 30 stone blocks on a gently sloping but otherwise featureless bottom.
The same project also involved rebuilding the front plaza, but no mention was made of the stone blocks.
The walls were decorated with paintings, the earliest imitating colored stone blocks; the latest, elaborate stage sets.
Classical Greek and Roman architecture made use of five major orders (or styles) of columns, carved from single blocks or created from stacks of massive stone blocks.
The road's foundation was of heavy stone blocks cemented together with lime mortar; over these were laid polygonal blocks of lava that were smoothly and expertly fitted together.
Architecturally, the Incas surpassed all others in their use of intricately cut, giant-size stone blocks, at the sites of Machu Picchu, Sacsahuamán, and Ollantaytambo.
Dr. Terrenato said he was immediately struck by the size of the stone blocks in the retaining wall on the slope inside the complex.
