Can stone be a viable modern building material" Dezeen's Stone Age 2.0 series explores the material's re-emergence and potential to be a durable, low-carbon alternative to steel and concrete.

Starting today, our week-long Stone Age 2.0 series will investigate how a small, but growing, group of architects and engineers are rediscovering the potential of one of the world's oldest building materials.
Widely available, durable and long-lasting, stone was once the go-to material for millennia, with recorded ancient buildings dating back almost 10,000 years built from it.
Along with domestic structures, some of the world's largest and most impressive buildings were created from stone. From the Pyramids in Egypt, the Parthenon in Greece and the high gothic cathedrals of Europe, notable stone architecture is all around the world. However, the material's dominance as a structural material ended with the rise of concrete and steel, with stone reduced to a decorative role, often hiding or enclosing another structural material.

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Now architects and engineers are aiming to reignite the stone age promoting the material as a viable structural alternative to steel and concrete.
While driven in part by the reasons that led to stone initially being so prevalent ? it being strong, plentiful and fireproof ? the material's reinvestigation is als...