These incredible images show how stone is a building material of endless opportunity, that it can be formal, elegant, playful and energising. Among the featured buildings are an incredible Roman aqueduct in France, a 12th-century church built inside a carved pit in Ethiopia and a quirky museum - and former house - surrounded by boulders in Portugal. Carved into the hillside are two churches, one with enough room for a congregation of 2,000Uchimura Kanzo Memorial Stone Church in Karuizawa, Nagano Prefecture, Japan. The 11-storey building opened in 2001 and harbours over 6,000 square metres of hand-carved stoneThe King Abdullah Financial District Grand Mosque opened in the Saudi Arabian capital, Riyadh, in 2017. Completed in 2015, it was built using a mixture of light grey stone and reinforced concreteThe lobby inside the O’biz Tower, an office building in Anyang, South Korea.

Source: Daily Mail March 23, 2020 10:52 UTC