The building, a spare structure of stone and wood, dates from 1763 and welcomes visitors.
He builds two beehivelike structures of stone, one by the ocean, the other deep in a field.
At that time, terraced pueblo structures of stone and adobe continued to dominate the architecture of a number of independent Hopi towns.
Some flow into attractive structures of stone or concrete that someone built, others are channeled to a pipe that spills onto rocks.
The defining feature of the age is the castles —magnificent structures of stone, surrounded by wide moats and topped by graceful ramparts and donjons that dotted the landscape between the 1580s and 1630s.
Ice crystals have greater volume than liquid water, and when water is contained in the porous structure of stone and then freezes, the resulting ice crystals place enormous stress on the pore walls.
Water can also carry soluble salts—such as the sodium chloride present in seawater or the nitrates found in groundwater polluted by fertilizers into the porous structure of stone.
The monastery, this structure of stone that endures, between the bitter waters and precipitous cliffs, with its oven and its inkwells, its mill and its cesspool, its constellation of sacred fonts and the unadorned graves of its dead, is perhaps, more than Bethlehem or Nazareth, the cradle of Christianity.
Salisbury's spire is an ingenious composite structure of stone cladding laid over a timber frame and tied together at the base with iron bands to resist spreading; it rose to a total height of 123 metres (404 feet) when it was finished in 1362.
For conservation such fluctuations mean that, for example, a wall structure of stone, ceramics, glass, frescos, metals and also organic material which were conserved for centuries or millennia due to equilibrium conditions are put in danger in a very short time range compared to the sites life-time.
