Sandstone

built of sandstone and dedicated to Avalokiteshvara

The 4 caves are all in the escarpment of the hill in soft Badami sandstone formation, to the south-east of the town.

The tower however was mainly built from sandstone.

The facade is largely composed of brick with sandstone trim and terracotta detailing.

Famous for its rock-cut architecture and water conduit systems, Petra is also called the "Rose City" because of the colour of the sandstone from which it is carved.

The walls are faced with more than 50,000 blocks of over 24 different types of stone, though a rustic finished Nepean sandstone is the predominant kind of masonry, with dressed stone trim around the 550 windows and other edges.

The building material required was not close by as sandstone quarries were at quite a distance.

The fort's massive yellow sandstone walls are a tawny lion colour during the day, fading to honey-gold as the sun sets, thereby camouflaging the fort in the yellow desert.

Constructed between 1792 and 1800, its exterior walls are Aquia Creek sandstone painted white.

Built from red and pink sandstone, it is on the edge of the City Palace, Jaipur, and extends to the Zenana, or women's chambers.

Chacoans quarried sandstone blocks and hauled timber from great distances, assembling 15 major complexes that remained the largest buildings ever built in North America until the 19th century.

Begun in 1030 under Conrad II, with the east end and high vault of 1090-1103, the imposing triple-aisled vaulted basilica of red sandstone is the "culmination of a design which was extremely influential in the subsequent development of Romanesque architecture during the 11th and 12th centuries".

The buildings are rectangular, with symmetrical Renaissance Revival façades of sandstone lined with large arched windows on the main levels and topped with octagonal domes 60 metres (200 ft) high.

The Kinver Rock Houses are a series of cave dwellings carved into the sandstone escarpment at Kinver Edge in Staffordshire, England.

The plantation house was built about 1835, and is a 2+1⁄2-story, rectangular, brick dwelling in a late period Federal style.

The three-story, nine bay wide Romanesque Revival style mansion is constructed of Medina sandstone.

The Alexander Brown House, at 726 West Onondaga Street in Syracuse, New York, is a Richardsonian Romanesque mansion in Potsdam sandstone and Spanish tile home built in 1895.

It was built about 1835 and is a 1+1⁄2-story, five-bay residence constructed of red Potsdam Sandstone in the slab and binder style.

It was built with walls of sandstone pillars and smaller blocks of Ashlar masonry.

The main structure is built from a blend of Indian sandstone and limestone, while high-quality Italian marble was used for the key decorative elements.

The building is clad in 9,600 tonnes of Derbyshire sandstone with bronze ventilation fins.

Instead of repairing it, Latrobe demolished, redesigned and rebuilt the interiors within the existing brick and sandstone walls.

It is faced with Madera County granite on the exterior, and Indiana sandstone within, together with finish marbles from Alabama, Colorado, Vermont, and Italy.

== Architecture == === Design === Consisting of four floors and 340 rooms, with a floor area of 200,000 square metres (2,200,000 sq ft), it was built using 700 million bricks and 3,000,000 cu ft (85,000 m3) of stone with little steel.

The exterior walls were clad with sandstone from Scania, and the new castle was given a roof with copper sheeting.

The buildings were constructed using Portland sandstone, a material rich in marine fossils.

The hotel was built in 1892 of sandstone and red granite, one year later than the Oxford Hotel.

These buildings, built from light sandstone, were designed by the architect Sir Herbert Baker in the English monumental style and are 285 m long.

The Old Parliament House is a sandstone building unveiled in January 1927 and was designed by the British architects Edwin Lutyens and Herbert Baker.

Built in sandstone in Solanki architectural style, the Dada Harir stepwell is five stories deep.

The stepwell is small, moderately ornamented and is constructed using sandstone blocks and stone slabs.

It is constructed of bricks and sandstone.

The house is a two-story stone structure, built out of rustically cut sandstone, with a three-story tower at one end, and a single-story service wing.

The materials used for its construction consisted of sandstone and burnt clay (lime surkhi).

The front of the original house was reclad in a sandstone ashlar facade, with the original rear and courtyard walls of Flemish bond red brick remaining.

Built of sandstone, exterior there is a profusion of gabled slate roofs having castellated parapets and balconies dominated by tall tudor chimneys.

It is a three-story dwelling constructed of coursed Maine granite with sandstone trim in the Chateauesque style.

The exterior of the home was built of red Utah sandstone although some details like the lavish fireplaces used more exotic stone like Nubian marble.

These are built of dressed sandstone as opposed to the rendered limestone rubble of the central block.

It is one of a series of row houses, built of brick with sandstone trim.

All three are constructed of rough-cut sandstone blocks quarried from nearby Lookout Mountain.

The home is a 6,700-square-foot, 2+1⁄2-story, eight-bedroom mansion built of sandstone and red brick.

The pyramids, mostly built of local sandstone (and in later periods of brick), are under 30 metres (98 ft) in height-significantly smaller than the well-known ancient Egyptian pyramids.

Constructed from medium-to-coarse-grained sedimentary sandstone, the freestanding and engaged pillars of the multistoried mandapa (pavilions) are arranged in a trabeated format.

Built-in sandstone in the Solanki architectural style, the Adalaj stepwell is five stories deep.

It stands two stories, clad in Prairie du Chien sandstone, the same stone used for the third Capitol.

The office is east of the living quarters, and features stucco walls and a sandstone chimney.

The construction of the castle began in the 6th century (over the remains of an old roman castrum) under the Byzantine rule (the construction of the oldest part of the ramparts made of sandstone blocks is characteristic of this period).

To the style elements of the two-story, high-volume estate belong rich carved stone formations above the basement level, and window and gable motifs framed with sandstone, in German Renaissance Revival architecture style.

George Mason II built his manor along Chopawamsic Creek using blocks of local sandstone.

originally brick, since 1905, Silesian sandstone

Red Sandstone

white sandstone