The third of six films looking at the 2021 contenders for the RIBA Stirling Prize

The RIBA has revealed the shortlist for this year's Stirling Prize, with Amin Taha's 15 Clerkenwell Close a surprise addition to the list…

Mimi Thompson looks back at The New Stone Age exhibition, our celebration of structural stone.

A rippling timber roof cantilevers from the Dolunay Villa in Muğla, Turkey, designed by Foster + Partners to complement its rugged coastal setting.

It’s cheap, light, quick, fireproof and has a tiny carbon footprint compared to concrete. No wonder the ‘great forgotten material of our time’ is staging a comeback…

New Stone Age at London's Building Centre shows the potential of stone as a modern construction material…

The New Stone Age marks a return to the use of stone and wood; low-cost materials with an embodied carbon of zero and negative respectively…

Imagine a building material strong enough to support a skyscraper, but without any of the CO2 emissions of concrete or steel, and you have the new wonder of construction — stone.

Curated by Amin Taha of Groupwork, Steve Webb of Webb Yates and Pierre Bidaud from the Stone Masonry Company, the exhibition acts as a survey of the contemporary use of structural stone…