MASONRY Magazine

High above Granada, Spain, the Alhambra offers masonry professionals something more than an architectural landmark. It is a working lesson in how relatively simple building materials, placed by skilled craftsmen and maintained over generations, can create

Imagine being handed a set of plans calling for the largest brick cathedral in the world. Now imagine building it without modern cranes, engineered scaffolding, forklifts, power tools, or structural analysis software. That was the challenge facing medie

The Tate Modern’s industrial past is still visible from across the Thames. Long before the building became one of the world’s best-known museums, it operated as the Bankside Power Station, a coal-fired facility designed by Sir Giles Gilbert Scott and con