masonry

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No action was taken for years but with falling masonry, lingering asbestos, regular fires and exploding toilets, everyone agrees the work needs to be done.

From BBC • Feb. 5, 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

Locals sometimes used to swim around the stone masonry.

From The Wall Street Journal • Nov. 28, 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

The stairwell was a cramped corkscrew of masonry, no more than six feet in diameter.

From "The Mark of Athena" by Rick Riordan