The rhetoric around the Smithsonian’s renovation of the Hirshhorn Museum’s sculpture garden is officially heated. Preservationists, who worry about plans to evolve the 1981 brutalist design ...

National Capital Planning Commission welcomes revisions to Hiroshi Sugimoto’s proposal for an expanded reflecting pool and stacked stone walls ...

Why do people stack stones in the wild? From Maine to Mongolia, rock piles mark paths, tombs, and create art. But they come with complications.

90%—The increase in acoustic performance expected from replacing a concrete wall between the museum and the garden with one made of stacked-stone granite.

Sugimoto’s new design reorganizes the sculpture garden into outdoor galleries partitioned by stacked stone walls and includes a new water basin that can be drained and used as a performance stage.

The Sculpture Garden at the Hirshhorn Museum in Washington, D.C. as pictured in 2007. (Gryffindor/Wikimedia Commons/Public Domain) The “key part” referenced by Sugimoto is the dry-stack stone ...

For years, a curious traveler would notice them: the intentionally stacked rocks along Highway 54, their arrangement forming unique, abstract sculptures. Some rocks, at times, would tower high and ...

A few miles south of Martinsville, deep in the country, lies an amazing ten-acre sculpture garden created by C.R. Schiefer. Approximately 180 sculptures, many of them monumental in size, have been ...

Stacked stones are pictured during the European Stone Stacking Championships 2018 in Dunbar, Scotland, on Sunday. Photo: Agence France-Presse Page, the fledgling contest’s founder.

Sugimoto’s proposed extensive use of stacked stones walls fundamentally disrupts the Sculpture Garden’s Modernist design, Bunshaft and Collins’ artistic intent and the museum campus’s ...

Some residents in Hollister are calling for the removal of a 30-year-old rock sculpture they describe to resemble a ‘phallic symbol.’ The sculpture is located in front of the County ...