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Design Competition – design a home for your favourite fictional character

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Nothing Superfluous. A poem by LionHeart

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How do we build for the Climate Crisis? Material Provenance with MASS Design Group

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How do you quarry stone?

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A message from Colin Tweedy, our Chief Executive

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Routine is Similar to Addiction. A poem by LionHeart

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Railings for Scrap – the Building Centre in the Blitz

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Stone Tower Research Project

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Amin Taha speaks to BBC World Service about The New Stone Age

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Reframing Spaces – the Catalyst Cube in Caracas

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Clerkenwell Stone Bench

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'Humanity carves its memory, its glory and its failures in stone'

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