One of the UK’s top design publications previewed our stone brick installation at Clerkenwell Design Week, claiming that it could catalyse the renaissance of stone, a once favoured and beautifully imperfect construction material. The article said that Albion Stone and Hutton Stone have invested in state-of-the-art machinery that can make around 1 million stone bricks from ‘unloved stone’ a year. These bricks have a carbon footprint that’s 75% less than clay-fired bricks. “The driver for us doing it is because it’s fundamentally the right thing to do. When there was no cost to throwing away things, it didn’t matter, but the climate crisis has given us the leverage we need to remake that argument,” said Marcus Paine, Managing Director of Hutton Stone.
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