masonry
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Steel beams can be installed against masonry walls to give older spaces added protection from reverberations, but it’s unclear whether any were installed at Golestan or Chehel Sotoun.
From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 17, 2026
Behind them, Gehry designed bulky offices — one clad in dark, rough masonry, the other in irregular white stucco — but they’ve since been overshadowed by the quirky entry sculpture.
From Los Angeles Times • Dec. 5, 2025
A witness told AFP that masonry from an eight-storey building in Dhaka had fallen onto a busy road below.
From Barron's • Nov. 21, 2025
A mechanical excavator had ripped through the facade of the East Wing, leaving a tangle of broken masonry, rubble and steel wires, AFP journalists at the scene saw.
From Barron's • Oct. 20, 2025
At the moment, not in the room itself but from somewhere very close, there came, first a rumbling, then a creaking, and then a roar of falling masonry, and the floor shook.
From "The Magician's Nephew" by C. S. Lewis
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"Sonnet 55" by William Shakespeare
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