Stone Homes and Stone Building and
Sculpture around the World
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This is a collection of shortcuts to pictures of
stone homes and sculptures from all over the world. Click on any of the
pictures below to visit the page, read more about the house,
follow links to builder's or owner's websites and, if you are a
Pinterest user, add the picture to your collections in Pinterest. When you visit the page you may also see
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detail about some of the natural homes and natural builders then
we have a growing collection of articles about
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Dry stone wall, Canada
This wobbly wall is winding its way across Ontario, Canada.
It was built by Dean McLellan with John Rimmington near Coburg
Ontario. |
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Blackhouses, Scotland
These are the stone blackhouses of Gearrannan
on the Isle of Lewis, Scotland. Originally built to share with
farm animals. |
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Stone fishing station, Iceland
This is one of Iceland's fishing stations
under a big cold Icelandic sky. It's built using thick dry
stone walls with a timber roof under thick insulating layers
of turf. |
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Stone blackhouse, Canada
This is a traditional Scottish dry stone home
called a Blackhouse however it's in Canada. Here are some in
blackhouses in Scotland. |
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Cave homes, Tunisia
The homes are grouped around a central courtyard and
connected to other courtyards with more rooms forming an
underground maze. |
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Cave homes, Turkey
Ortahisar is one of the many villages that occupy this
labyrinth of caves where thick walls keep the homes cool in
the 40C summers. |
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Cave homes, China
The homes, some with stylish pillars of stone,
are arranged in two village clusters supplied with fresh water
from a natural spring. |
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Celtic roundhouse, Wales
In keeping with Welsh Celtic style the stone roundhouse is decorated
at its entrance by Celtic knotwork. |
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Cave home interior, Turkey
This is the living room in Evelien's beautiful home in
Ortahisar, Turkey. Her home is partly carved from the rocks
and partly built with the local stone. |
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