Water Elements: Utilizing Natural Stone By Mark Haverstock If nature hasn't been kind enough to create a waterfall, stream or pond on your property, you need not fret; designers have ingenious ways to incorporate water elements into interior and exterior applications for residential and commercial use.

Stone Finds Its Melody
By Jodi Paper
The vast majority of Arizona is extremely dry and may receive as little as six to eight inches of rain each year. Because of this drought-like climate, the promotion of lawns and other vast expanses of greenery that would require moisture to thrive are minimal. Whereas in most parts of this country, grass forms the basis for a landscape design, here, stone has become a popular medium, and often, the central material.

Safeguarding the Past,
Enhancing the Present
By M. W. Penn
After 40 years of snow plow abuse, freeze-thaw cycles and a decrease of water drainage, Beinecke Plaza underwent a major renovation. Discover the intricacies of refurbishing the granite-paved university quadrangle that is at the same time the roof of rare book and manuscript storage.

A Life in Stone
By Brett Martin
Bill Richardson Sr. knows stone. From "master mason extraordinaire" to renowned sculptor, successful business owner to respected teacher, he's made a life — and helped create the Las Vegas-area landscape — by working with stone.

Turning Lemons Into Lemonade
By Jennie Farnsworth
Although the designers of the U.S. National Park Service's Twin Creeks Science and Education Center encountered a few initial obstacles, the team rises above, turning the impediments into assets.

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Historical Feature:
The Buffalo Psychiatric Center
More than 135 years ago, Henry Hobson Richardson's sprawling, rough-hewn, 360,000-square-foot stone edifice was celebrated as Modern Architecture and the epitome of building technology. Find out more about the building that, at the time, set the international benchmark for health care architecture, and its fate in the modern day world.

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