The rolling green hills of Tivoli had been a popular summertime escape since Roman times when Ippolito d’Este decided to erect his villa there in 1550. D’Este had recently suffered his first of five ...

Architects Michael Hansmeyer and Benjamin Dillenburger unveiled their latest 3D-printed masterpiece—a full-scale ornamental grotto. Crafted with intricate baroque-like detail like its predecessor, the ...

This spring at the annual exposition of the Association of Siamese Architects under Royal Patronage (ASA) in Bangkok, Thai architecture firm HAS Design and Research unveiled an installation inspired ...

How a hidden grotto at Painshill Park was created out of thousands of crystals in the 18th Century.

At the intersection of Woodpoint Road and Conseylea Street in Williamsburg sits a 20th century curiosity built on a tiny plot of ground with a centuries-old significance in the history of Brooklyn.

German Catholic immigrants to America in the first half of the 20th century, tens of thousands of whom found their way to the Midwest, brought their sacred grotto tradition from the old country.

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