Stories in Stone

I would like to return to Smith Tower and look at the other beautiful stone that graces its lobby. It is a classic marble, quarried from Tok...

In continuing my short tour of Seattle lobbies, I turn to what is one of the best known lobbies in the downtown area. Smith Tower is also on...

I am starting a series looking at buildings in Seattle. I plan to focus initially on some lobbies that I have long liked. My first is the wo...

Last night, I watched a fascinating documentary about the iconoclastic architect Louis Kahn. As the title implies, My Architect: A Son's...

Italian paleontologists have been on a roll of late, and they haven’t even had to go out in the field. Late last year came reports of the di...

As I noted in September , the afterlife of quarries can be varied. Recently I came across one of the more beautiful second lives of a former...

To paraphrase the old saw, everyone talks about evolution but no one does anything about it. Well, Brian Switek decided to do something, at ...