In Architecture Magazine’s monthly ‘Ask the Expert’ article, Marcus Paine, Managing Director of Hutton Stone, explains how a change in architects’ preoccupation with visual consistency could herald a future for low-carbon construction that embraces the natural material that forms the cornerstone of our built heritage. He explains that if architects return to stone and begin to specify stone as a structural material rather than just cladding, costs will come down. But price is not the main obstacle facing the British stone industry – it’s architects’ preoccupation with aesthetics.
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