Blocks of red sandstone cover the volumes of a new design museum by Álvaro Siza and Carlos Castanheira on the Chinese Academy of Art campus in Hangzhou.

New York studio Diana Kellogg Architects completes sustainable school using local sandstone in rural India's Thar Desert

Blessed with a rugged landscape of steep cliffs that plunge into the ...

Rajasthan is synonymous with sandstone as a building material but sadly, over the last few decades, this material has been reduced to a 'cladding 'medium and its potential as a robust and sustainable structural element has not been explored. The house in Jaipur presented us with an opportunity to explore and evolve a method of building that has been prevalent in traditional buildings for centuries. We laid out a simple brief: no material other than stone should be used for construction.

Heatherwick Studio's Little Island – half way through construction in the water on Manhattan’s southwest riverside in New York City – makes the most out of the hundreds of old wooden piles which stuck out of the Hudson River, to create a landscape that blends public park and performance space

Rajasthan is synonymous with sandstone as a building material but sadly, over the last few decades, this material has been reduced to a 'cladding 'medium and its potential as a robust and sustainable structural element has not been explored. The house in Jaipur presented us with an opportunity to explore and evolve a method of building that has been prevalent in traditional buildings for centuries. We laid out a simple brief: no material other than stone should be used for construction.

Image 2 of 51 from gallery of Bijoy Jain: “Architecture Is Not About an Image, It Is About Sensibility”. Photograph by Studio Mumbai

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