: "Old buildings being built solidly is often a sleight of hand. The columns of the high Gothic cathedrals look like solid stone. They are actually a veneer of stone encasing a core of rubble mixed with lime."

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Old buildings being built solidly is often a sleight of hand. The columns of the high Gothic cathedrals look like solid stone. They are actually a veneer of stone encasing a core of rubble mixed with lime.

Jul 03, 2024 at 17:06 UTC

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Every time we cut through some mammoth brick wall to put a new opening in some historic building, we find that the outer (visible) wythes were laid with care and all the inner wythes are just kind of “whatever.”

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