Novelty hunting

2005-03-18T00:00:00

A new material that Foster & Partners is testing is a laminate of stone with glass to use as external cladding

Caruso St John’s architects were deciding on a material for the acoustic panels on the ceiling of London Barbican’s concert hall, when they arrived at an impasse. The practice didn’t want to use a standard off-the-shelf material, but something fresh instead.

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