Steve Webb of Webb Yates Engineers has produced a learning module on stone for School of Specification. Here, he explains how the potato/tomato line provides a clue as to how stone construction might be developed in the UK.
Article 25 with Michael Hadi Associates and Max Fordham have designed new, passively cooled classrooms for a college in west Niger.
NÃall McLaughlin Architects’ exquisite music practice and performance space for Trinity Hall, Cambridge, may be diminutive in scale, but it joins a small pantheon of modernist projects that can be considered total works of art, says John Pardey.
pH+ Architects’ fascinating reinvention of the English Country House combines boldness and precision with intimacy and a strong connection to its site, finds David Hills.
Katerina Dionysopoulou and Billy Mavropoulos discuss the importance of material research and establishing close working relationships with specialist suppliers and subcontractors
Caroline Hall from Natural Stone Projects answers readers’questions on stone.
Building Morrow + Lorraine carves luxury holiday villas into Dorset’s Jurassic Coast
Building Review Jack Richards admires a contemporary but contextual addition to the Fratry at Carlisle Cathedral by Feilden Fowles
Building Review David Grandorge enjoys Casswell Bank’s lean and sensitive renovation of a distinctive agricultural building type
Envelope
A new exhibition reflects a rebirth of interest in stone as a sustainable, beautiful and inexpensive structural material, say curators Amin Taha, Steve Webb and Pierre Bidaud
Specifiers Choice
A new library and study centre for St John’s College Oxford, by Wright & Wright Architects, takes its cues from a neighbouring baroque ensemble of buildings
