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Is Don Quijote at It Again?
This piece by geologist Rein Einasto and engineer Hubert Matve was first published in newspaper Sirp ja Vasar on the 13th of July, 1987. Forty years later, Rein Einasto maintains that sustainable and multifaceted use of local stone is a necessity without an alternative, and a wide open road of possibilities.
Case Studies: Plan-les-Ouates
Case Study – 4 social housing units with 68 apartments in Switzerland, architecture Gilles Perraudin and Atelier Archiplein.
Case Studies: 62 Rue Oberkampf
Case Study – apartment building in Paris, at 62 Rue Oberkampf, architecture by Barrault Pressacco.
Case Studies: 15 Clerkenwell Close
Case Study – office and apartment building in London, 15 Clerkenwell Close, architecture by Groupwork.
Sisyphus and the Portland Stone
Acting as material broker, Amaya Hernandez writes about saving more than 100 million years old stone from being ground into aggregate for a concrete planter.
Moss Doesn’t Grow…
Artist Helena Keskküla wanted to work on stone as she tracked stone-related episodes in the text and illustrations of The Kalevide, and looked for connections between stone and Estonianness.
Working Stone
Designing in close collaboration with what the material provides, ’Working Stone’ summer school uncovered some interesting alternative approaches to productive reuse.
Houses of Time. Carbonate rock in Estonian buildings
Geologist Helle Perens emphasises that instead of worrying about the environmental impact of quarrying building stone, we should worry that there are plans for the near future to extract senseless amounts of it, including very high-quality stone, only to crush it into aggregate.
Linnahall is Sedimenting
Architect Madli Kaljuste takes a look at Linnahall that hides traces of 400-million-years-old life in its walls.