A dry stone wall is built with only one ingredient - natural stone. There’s no mortar gluing everything together or backup made of concrete blocks ... section has a rough “A” shape.

But closer to town, stone walls give way to walls made of concrete, which has largely replaced stone as the defining material of Japan’s rural infrastructure. Is that because concrete ...

The architects chose precast concrete lintels as a reinterpretation of the old fortress walls of rubble stone. The relief of the bulging grout reinforces its rough character. Inside, a split-level ...