And the world wouldn't be the same without Dolmabahce Palace, with its carved gates that have the texture of stone lace.
(This isn't the architects' fault. What station wouldn't look flimsy on stilts, with tracks in place of a foundation?) Then, too, the concrete panels may have the texture of stone, but they are clearly just hung on the surface.
Even the flat textures of stone and plants on the rocky boundaries of these pools seem three-dimensional when seen from a distance.
The texture of the stone looks wrong, even the echoes in the vaulted buildings ring wrong; yet, oddly enough, the errors don't kill the picture.
"He particularly loved seeing the colour and texture of the stones.
But Sandby also uses his skills as a consumate colourist to show the differing textures of brick, stone, wood and foliage.
The memorial, a 260-foot-by-160-foot ring of granite containing water that flows and rushes according to the variations in the carved textures of the stone, was designed by Kathryn Gustafson and Neil Porter as a living monument around which adults can sit and in which children are encouraged to splash and wade.
Made from the indigestible parts of squid eaten by sperm whales, and usually released only when the poor whale dies from a blocked and ruptured intestine and has been picked apart by the sea's scavengers, ambergris matures as it floats in the brine from a tarry black dung to a dense, pungent grey substance with the texture of soft, waxy stone.
Michel claims his printers can reproduce not just the texture and surface contour of stone but its physical make-up.
He has a small oeuvre of elegant, austere modernist buildings, mostly in eastern and central Europe, that are exquisitely crafted and that celebrate the sensual aspect of materials — the feel of wood, the texture of concrete, the depth of stone.
The colonization of microbial communities on the bare surface of monuments and artworks is mainly determined by the nature and properties of stone surface (surface texture, mineral composition, percentage of different minerals, pH, moisture content and salinity etc).
