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Architects "can develop a new language" with structural stone says Aurore Baulier

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ACAN Natural Materials Group co-ordinator Aurore Baulier calls on architects to embrace stone 's natural qualities and reintroduce the material into their toolkits in this Stone Age 2.0 Obviously, you can shape concrete into all these fancy forms, but if you're clever with stone, you can do incredible stuff," Baulier told Dezeen.

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Social housing means "I can breathe again" say residents

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Photo courtesy of Southwark Council Named Wouldham Court, the 21-home scheme on a former garage site is aesthetically functional, but for Bennett and her family it has been life-changing. Dezeen speaks to residents of new council housing in London about what their homes mean to them as part of our Social Housing Revival series.

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Why a Growth Mindset is Necessary for Building Better Architecture Businesses

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In my experience, a Growth Mindset is an excellent perspective for architects to adopt and operate from. By adopting a growth mindset, I believe architects can approach their work with an open mind, embrace challenges as opportunities for growth, learn from failures and continually develop their skills and expertise.

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"I really hate the word 'social' housing" says Annalie Riches

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Architects are often wrongly blamed for past failures in social housing , Mikhail Riches co-founder Annalie Riches says in this Social Housing Revival interview. Riches set out in her career to design great social housing, in a bid to challenge what she saw as a prevailing notion that architects "can't do housing".

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The "enormously important" hidden carbon impacts of getting mass timber wrong

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Architects are increasingly using mass timber in the hopes of creating net-zero buildings but carbon assessments are missing key sources of potential emissions, researchers tell Dezeen in this Timber Revolution feature. There's not a lot of data available to predict end-of-life and that can be very, very important," Wishnie said.

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Building tall with timber "does not make sense" say experts

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Other engineered wood towers in the works are the Atlassian by SHoP Architects and BVN , and Rocket&Tigerli by Schmidt Hammer Lassen , both of which are expected to reach record-breaking heights. As part of our Timber Revolution series, Dezeen asked mass-timber experts about the ongoing race to build ever-taller wooden buildings.

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Architects "could be very important" to Africa's Great Green Wall says Elvis Paul Tangem

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The coordinator of the mammoth Great Green Wall project to heal land in Africa 's Sahel region, Elvis Paul Tangem, calls for help from architects in this interview conducted as part of Dezeen's Designing for Disaster series. As a result large numbers of people are leaving in search of a better life in the Global North.

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