Stone retaining walls add elegance to your lawn while stabilizing sloped terrain. If you're worried about the cost, here's how to build your own on a budget.

Whatever the shape and size of your plot, a stone garden wall will boost its style credentials. From smart, contemporary cladding, majestic gabions or rustic dry stone walls there are endless ...

From real or composite stone cladding, local dry-stone walling or neatly hewn and processed blocks, each material will add its own character and can be used in many creative ways.

Preserving dry stone walls in buildings is an opportunity to promote Cyprus as a model of sustainable development, strengthen the local economy through the creation of new jobs and keep the island ...

Until today, dry stone wall construction has involved vast amounts of manual labour. A multidisciplinary team of ETH Zurich researchers developed a method of using an autonomous excavator to ...

The goal? To build a 20 foot (6 meter) and 213 ft (65 m) long dry-stone wall as part of a park where the landscape was digitally planned, and the earth autonomously excavated.

* dry stone wall construction has involved vast amounts of manual labor. * A multidisciplinary team of ETH Zurich researchers developed a method of using an autonomous excavator to construct a dry- ...

To him, stone walling’s reliance on man power instead of machine power, and passed-down knowledge instead of equations, is part of its value. “I like the very wild dry stone walls,” he told me.

Stone walls are a glory of New England vernacular design. I’m speaking of dry-laid (no mortar) walls made of weathered fieldstone. They frame old houses and wind through forested areas of the ...

If you've never installed a stone wall, talk to an installer, watch him work or study existing walls to see how they were constructed. Take photos of old walls and copy the pattern and method as ...