Marble architecture

These exquisite marble models of sacred architecture feature extraordinary details, including tiny ornate objects and mini shelves.

Traditional white marble carved arches in the temple, Gujarat, India

openbox architects has joined architecture and landscape as one, in its most recent residential design in bangkok, thailand.

St. Mark's Basilica in Venice, Italy "is the most famous of the city's churches and one of the best known examples of Byzantine architecture. It lies at the eastern end of the Piazza San Marco, adjacent and connected to the Doge's Palace. Originally it was the chapel of the Doge, and has only been the city's cathedral since 1807, when it became the seat of the Patriarch of Venice, archbishop of the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Venice, formerly at San Pietro di Castello. For its opulent…

stone quarry

The 5th-century basilica of Santa Sabina was built at the top of the Aventine Hill on the site of the Temple of Juno Regina and re-used many of its materials including these Roman columns hewn from Proconnesian marble. The spandrels of the closely-spaced arches have inlaid marble designs in green and purple, depicting chalices and patens to represent the Eucharist.

british artist matthew simmonds carves intricate miniature models of architectural spaces into parts of unfinished stone and marble.

Italian Ways is an online magazine (in English) about Italy edited and designed by Angelini Design in Rome. The stated aim of the project, says Michele Angelini, “is to give visibility to historical and artistic Italian places—in particular the ones not so common to the main public—and to give focus to the Italian Arts and Crafts, which means design, tradition, taste, flavours, and more specificly craftsmen inside their studios working and making their pieces.” Italian Ways m

When his car breaks down in front a mansion called the 12 Pillars, Michael Jones isn’t sure what’s wrong with his car or what to do about it. As his luck would have it, he ran into some…