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Marvelous Masonry

Tate Modern

Words: Cass Stern

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

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Tate Modern

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Argo Community High School Performing Arts Center
Words: John Cicciarelli

Argo Community High School is located in Summit, Illinois, just southwest of Chicago’s Midway Airport. In 2016, the Argo Community High School Board of Education and the school’s administration undertook the construction of a new performing

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When I first set out to become a historic preservation and restoration mason, I imagined that most of my trade would involve repairing the effects of old age. Instead, 99 percent of my work is attempting to stabilize and reverse damage caused by recent an Technical Talks
Restoring the Breath of the Building: The Life-Saving Science Behind Historic Masonry Repairs
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Chairman’s Message

The Walls We Build

As masons, we spend our careers building walls. We build them with brick, block, stone, and mortar, and we take pride in making them straight, strong, and built to last. But over the years, I’ve learned there is another kind of wall we build—the walls we

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