When restoring the University of Virginia’s rotunda, careful attention was paid to the carving of Carrara marble columns, which shape the structure’s design.

About 10 years ago, David Jonke was walking down the center aisle of the Basilica of the National Shrine of the Immaculate Conception, when his mentor at Rugo Stone looked up at the Great Dome and said to him, “Kid, how are we going to get up there and do that someday?”

After nearly 100 years since construction began on the Basilica of the National Shrine of the Immaculate Conception, the placement of a final mosaic -- inside the Trinity Dome -- is expected to be completed in December 2017.

Builders, church leaders, choirmembers and journalists gathered atop eight floors ofscaffolding ­­ 159 feet high ­­ in the Basilica of the NationalShrine of the Immaculate Conception Oct. 28 for the blessing ofthe workspace where a new mosaic will be installed on theshrine's Trinity Dome.

This winter, a team of artists will begin installing the basilica's final artwork in its central and largest dome.

Italian workers will soon begin to tile the mosaic of the Trinity Dome at D.C.’s Basilica of the National Shrine of the Immaculate Conception

It was a holy moment at high altitude.

Motivated by the resurgence of the Fashion District and the building’s unique history, an architectural team restored the ornate facade of the base of New York City’s Fashion Tower, while sensitively incorporating a contemporary stone lobby

Rugo Stone has been chosen for their “The Rotunda Renovation” at the University of Virginia in Charlottesville, Virginia.

The church that sits high above Augusta Street was covered up and a mystery to all those who passed by for nearly a year.